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Standard Chartered PLC urged a London judge Wednesday to block part of a group of investors' £1.4 billion ($1.77 billion) claim against it alleging that the bank had downplayed how much it breached U.S. sanctions against Iran by hundreds of billions of dollars, alleging some of the investors had not shown they had standing.
Bitcoin's self-proclaimed "inventor" sought to throw out evidence used by 10 developers of the cryptocurrency in English legal proceedings to support their allegation he is fraudulently suing them for £4.5 billion ($5.4 billion) of bitcoin he is trying to get back after being allegedly hacked.
Actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted a man during rehearsals for a London theater event after asking him a series of unwanted sexually explicit questions that felt like "repeated slaps around the face," the man testified Thursday before a London jury.
Actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted a man by grabbing his genitals "like a cobra" in the mid-2000s after asking him a series of sexually-explicit questions, the victim said in a recording played for jurors at a London criminal court Wednesday.
Lawyers representing Prince Harry and other alleged victims of illegal information gathering methods said at a trial Thursday that former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan "lay at the heart" of widespread illegality at the tabloid's publisher.