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The article discusses the acquittal of newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks in a trial on the phone-hacking activities of tabloid newspaper "News of the World" as of June 24, 2014. Topics addressed include the conviction of former "News of the World" editor Andy Coulson on phone-hacking charges, as well as revelations about Brooks' personal life during the trial.

The article discusses reactions to Swiss bank Credit Suisse's May 19, 2014 guilty plea to criminal charges that it conspired to aid Americans in tax evasion. Topics addressed include a lack of client names released by Credit Suisse despite U.S. Justice Department requests, the views of Credit Suisse chief executive Brady W. Dougan, and the views of investors and the Swiss government towards the bank's settlement of the case.

The article discusses the testimony given by Rebekah Brooks, former "News of the World" editor and chief executive of News Corp. in Great Britain, at the phone hacking trial in London, England. It states that Brooks testimony has offered a view into the culture of the popular press. Some of the charges against her including paying a public official for information, hiding evidence from the police, and ordering codefendant Cheryl Carter to lie about her whereabouts is also discussed.

The article reports on the plotting accusations charged against delivery driver Junead Ahmed Khan to run over an American serviceman stationed in Great Britain and then kill him with a knife in an attack on July 21, 2015.

The article reports on the defense strategy in a phone hacking trial in Great Britain involving former British newspaper head Rebekah Brooks and her husband, wherein her husband's lawyer told the jury that the crime he was accused of was committed due to stupidity.

The article reports on the announcement given by Great Britain Prime Minister David Cameron regarding prosecution of parents who subject their daughters for genital mutilation.

The article reports that former senior editor in Rupert Murdoch's news, Andy Coulson was charged for 18 months imprisonment due to phone hacking scandal wherein he intercept phone messages.

The article discusses a British phone hacking court case involving former tabloid editor Andy Coulson wherein the jury failed to reach a verdict on two charges against him while Judge John Saunders chastised Prime Minister David Cameron for commenting about Coulson publicly.

The article reports on the plan of the Northern Irish Police Service to file a lawsuit against Boston College to obtain access to the transcripts and recordings of the interviews of former members of the Irish Republican Army.

The article reports on the testimony of former British newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks over her phone hacking charges where she denied all the allegations in February 2014.

The article reports on an email written by British journalist Rebekah Brooks citing that former Prime Minister Tony Blair offered to act as an unofficial adviser to Australian-born American business magnate Rupert Murdoch, during Blair's phone hacking trial on February 19, 2014.

PARIS -- It took Jerome Kerviel, the celebrity rogue trader who stands accused of losing billions of euros at the French bank Societe Generale, 10 minutes to make it through the scrum of microphones and journalists outside a courtroom Tuesday. The media onslaught on the first day of the opening hearing of his long-awaited trial -- a three-week marathon of cross-examinations and expert hearings -- set the stage for a national event with running commentary on topics as diverse as the body language of the lawyers (celebrities in their own right) to the color of the stripes in Mr. Kerviel's tie (pink). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- When risky bets by the rogue trader Jerome Kerviel had the French bank Societe Generale teetering near collapse in January 2008, Lehman Brothers was still going strong, Bernard L. Madoff was a sought-after money manager, and subprime mortgages had just caught the attention of regulators. Since then, the biggest trading fraud in history has been dwarfed by other financial crises. But Mr. Kerviel's rogue bets, which cost Societe Generale almost 5 billion euros, were in some ways a harbinger of what was to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The French are literally poking fun at President Nicolas Sarkozy, but he is not amused. On Wednesday, a court threw out a lawsuit that the president filed last week seeking to prevent a voodoo doll made in his image from remaining on sale. Mr. Sarkozy decided to appeal the decision, drawing ridicule from his critics on Thursday. It is his sixth lawsuit this year. The doll, which went on sale on Oct. 9, became a best-selling cult item as soon as the president tried to have it banned; it comes with 12 pins and a manual explaining how to put a curse on him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

American lawyers seeking to bring a class-action lawsuit against the French bank Societe Generale over its billions of euros in unexpected losses came to France on Wednesday looking for publicity, and plaintiffs. Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, which specializes in class-action suits, hopes that a Federal District Court in Manhattan will decide to allow French shareholders of Societe Generale to sue alongside their American counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The new lawyers for Jerome Kerviel, the former trader whose hidden bets cost the French bank Societe Generale nearly 5 billion euros or $7.2 billion, told a judge on Wednesday that he was not the only one engaged in such unauthorized trading. Caroline Wassermann, one of six lawyers in a reshuffled defense team, said after a hearing that she and her colleagues had the names of traders at the bank who conducted ''similar practices,'' though not on the same scale. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the end of the cover ups of film producer Harvey Weinstein over sexual complaints. Topics discussed include a brief information on the career of Weinsten as a film producer, an overview of the sexual cover-up cases filed against him, the investigations on these cases, and the end of his cover-ups.

The article discusses actresses' accusations against film producer Harvey Weinstein concerning sexual harassment in the 1970s. Topics include female celebrities' initiative of coming out for accusing, the investigation against the sexual assault cases filed against Weinstein in London, and prosecution against the producer. Female celebrities' including Cynthia Burr, Ashley Matthau, and Lacey Dorn's accusation against Weinstein concerning rape are also discussed.