HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department charged four men on Tuesday with tampering with phones in the New Orleans office of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, one of them a conservative filmmaker who last year provoked a scandal involving a liberal grass-roots group. The FBI said among those arrested on Monday was James O'Keefe, who, posing as a pimp and accompanied ...

A Swiss court on Monday acquitted a geologist accused of causing earthquakes while drilling deep into the ground in a pioneering attempt to produce clean energy. The Basel criminal court said it acquitted Markus Haering because he had not deliberately damaged properties or acted carelessly on the ...

Leading central bankers and national regulators said Thursday they were aiming to introduce proposals to strengthen international financial requirements on banks by the end of 2012. The agreed reforms, which have been in the offing for several months, are part of a "comprehensive response" to the financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said in a statement. "The capital ...