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The first real crackdown against the practice came in 1909, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that that a director of the Philippine Sugar Estates Development Company committed fraud when he bought stock in his company without sharing information with the seller that soon boosted its value. But it wasn...
When they are rolling through the streets in strollers, toddlers are usually the ones throwing temper tantrums. Now it's their parents who are having the biggest fits. On Monday the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a stunning recall of some 1 million Maclaren strollers that were released...
For some species of tuna, the chase is becoming unsustainable. In September, the European Commission recommended that the E.U. support a temporary suspension of the global trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a majestic cousin of the yellowfin sold for tens of thousands of dollars a head for its coveted sashimi...
Tuna-ranching has proven to be a good way to do business - too good, some argue. In recent years, many boats have joined in the lucrative business of taking fish to ranches like these, sometimes netting more tuna than they're allowed to, or catching underage fish that have not...
Human rights activists say it would have been political suicide for Odinga and Kibaki to refer Kenyans to the ICC themselves. "Any referral by Kenya would have been a de facto admission that Kenya is unable to prosecute the perpetrators, and that would have put us under the umbrella of...