A U.S. judge on Friday sharply questioned provisions of a shareholder settlement that would release Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) executives from liability over the computing company's botched acquisition of Autonomy Plc.
President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed reforms on Thursday spanning all aspects of life to make strife-torn Ukraine fit for European Union membership, warning his people that without reform they would face a future "alone with Russia."
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that bans prisons from sterilizing inmates without their consent, his office said on Thursday, after media reports and a later audit showed officials failed to obtain consent from dozens of incarcerated women.