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Litigation increasingly common to force action on climate change, says new study

May 26, 2017

A new study shows an increasing amount of litigation worldwide calling on governments to address and adapt to climate change. The research, by UN Environment and Columbia law school, shows action by citizens an...

Irish Court allows doctors to take pregnant woman off life support system

Irish Court permits doctors to take pregnant woman off life support system

Amanda

Dec 27, 2014

Health

A three judge panel of the High Court in Ireland allowed the doctors to turn off life support system of a clinically dead pregnant woman on Friday, triggering off fresh debate about the extremely strict abortio...

facebook faces legal action for scanning private messages

Facebook Inc faces legal action for scanning users’ personal messages for advertising purposes

Amanda

Dec 25, 2014

Innovation

Facebook is in trouble again. And this time around, it is going to be a legal tussle. A U.S. District Court in California ruled on Wednesday that a lawsuit be brought against the networking site for breaching u...

Jury finds Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius guilty, sentenced for 5 years imprisonment

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 21, 2014

World

Former Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison on Tuesday for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend last February. Pistorius' defense team told the pr...

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