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| Facebook must face shareholder class actions over IPO | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 12:45 AM | |
|  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has certified two shareholder class actions accusing Facebook Inc of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to the social media company's May 2012 initial public offering. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan said retail and institutional investors who claimed to lose money from buying Facebook shares at inflated prices in connection with the $16 billion IPO may pursue their respective claims as groups. Other Facebook defendants include Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and other officials.
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| Singer sues Spotify for copyright infringement in latest salvo over streaming | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 12:04 AM | |
| | By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter and musician's rights advocate David Lowery has sued Spotify, claiming in a proposed class action lawsuit that the streaming giant often uses lesser-known artists' material without paying them royalties. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, marks the latest salvo against Spotify by a musician, a battle which began in earnest when Taylor Swift yanked her entire catalogue from the online streaming platform in late 2014 following the release of her album "1989." But unlike Swift, pop music's reigning queen who believes that such streaming services under-value her music, Lowery claims in his lawsuit that Spotify has often failed to obtain permission to distribute the work of lesser-known artists or compensate song writers. |
| Texas 'affluenza' teen captured in Mexico to be returned to U.S | |  By Marice Richter and David Alire Garcia FORT WORTH, Texas/PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - A rich Texas teenager who fled with his mother to Mexico to avoid possible jail time for violating his probation in a drunken-driving crash that left four people dead planned the flight and even held a farewell party, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, became known as the "affluenza" teen during his trial in juvenile court over the 2013 crash. During Couch's trial, a psychologist sparked outrage by saying in his defence that Couch was so wealthy and spoiled he could not tell the difference between right and wrong.
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| ESPN in TV debate invite to FIFA election five | |  By Simon Evans MIAMI, Dec 29 (Reuters) - U.S. sports television network ESPN has invited the five candidates in FIFA's presidential election to participate in a debate on the future of the crisis-hit governing body for world football. "ESPN has invited all five candidates vying for the FIFA presidency to participate in a debate," a network spokesman told Reuters via email on Tuesday. "Our goal is to provide a forum for an open, transparent discussion about the future governance of the sport in advance of the election that will determine who occupies the most powerful position in global football." The candidates are Frenchman Jerome Champagne, Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Swiss Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
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| France calls for EU crackdown on fake Syrian passports | | | France has asked the European Union to improve the detection of fake Syrian passports used by people trying to get into Europe after two of the suicide bombers in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks were found carrying such passports. In a letter to the European Commission, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called on the EU to tighten security by improving the quality of equipment used to check travel documents at external borders, notably in Greece and Italy. |
| Thai military expands its powers with Bangkok 'black site' | |  By Aubrey Belford and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - When Bangkok lawyer Winyat Chatmontree was allowed to meet his client in detention at a Bangkok army base, Pratin Chankate shuffled in blindfolded and shackled by military guards. At their second meeting Pratin, a former police officer charged with plotting to attack senior government officials who was officially in civilian custody, was taken away after five minutes by soldiers, Winyat said. Pratin is detained in a new facility established by the Thai junta to hold people deemed threats to national security, in what lawyers and rights groups say is an unprecedented expansion of the military's control over the criminal justice system.
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| Exclusive - Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves | |  By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females. The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
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| 'Glee' star arrested on suspicion of possessing child porn | |  Actor Mark Salling, star of the hit television show "Glee," was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Salling, 33, who played brash high school football player Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the Fox network series about an unlikely school choir, was taken into custody in the Sunland neighbourhood north of Los Angeles, LAPD spokeswoman Liliana Preciado said. Salling was arrested by officers serving search warrants for Internet possession of child pornography, according to the spokeswoman.
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