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Louboutin v. YSL: in the battle for the red-lacquered sole, everyone wins

10:25 08/09/2012 Louboutin’s telltale red lacquered soles are entitled to trademark protection, so long as that protection extends only to contrasting red soles, and not to monochromatic designs. In so deciding, a panel of US federal judges for the Manhattan-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a lower court decision which had centered on the theory that within the fashion industry a single color can never serve as a trademark.

Drone strikes: the legal controversy

09:58 28/08/2012 In the aftermath of several drone strikes carried out earlier this month in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson reiterated Friday Pakistan’s view that such attacks lack legal legitimacy.

Mass killer Anders Breivik sentencing - live text coverage

11:30 24/08/2012 RAPSI hosted a live text coverage of the verdict handed down Friday against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. The 33-year-old Norwegian has admitted to having killed 77 people by way of twin attacks carried out in Oslo and on nearby Utoya Island on July 22, 2011.

Profile: Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik case

15:00 23/08/2012 While Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to having killed eight people in an Oslo bombing, and having gunned down another 69 at a nearby youth summer camp in 2011, he has refrained from admitting guilt for the crimes that he has been charged with in this connection.

Assange's US extradition fiction

10:52 21/08/2012 As Assange addressed a cheering crowd of devotees surrounding Ecuador’s London embassy Sunday, he devoted much of his first public appearance in the two months that have passed since he sought refuge there to lambasting the US “witch hunt” against WikiLeaks.

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