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Uber suspends low-cost service in France amid legal pressure
Fri, 03 Jul 2015 10:51:48 GMT
PARIS (AP) — Uber is suspending its low-cost ride-hailing service in France, hoping to defuse an escalating legal dispute and sometimes-violent tensions with traditional French taxi drivers.
'Citizen of the year' gets 14 years in California fraud case
Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:20:35 GMT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former California real estate developer once honored as his city's citizen of the year was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison for bilking investors who poured millions of dollars into failed development projects.
Gulf states reach $18.7B settlement with BP over oil spill
Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:13:12 GMT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and five Gulf states announced a record $18.7 billion settlement Thursday that resolves years of legal fighting over the environmental and economic damage done by the energy giant's oil spill in 2010.
French court: No compensation over faulty breast implants
Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:30:18 GMT
PARIS (AP) — A French appeals court ruled Thursday that a German product-testing company does not have to compensate more than 3,000 women with leak-prone breast implants — and now women who sued may have to pay back 5.8 million euros ($6.4 million) in collective damages they received in a lower-court ruling.
Toyota's top female executive resigns after arrest in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Julie Hamp, Toyota's most senior female executive, has resigned following her arrest in Japan on suspicion of drug law violations, the automaker said Wednesday.