Law & Society

International charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is taking legal action against the producers of Bollywood film "Phantom", saying its misrepresentation of the medical group could put its aid workers deployed in conflict zones at risk.

Facebook will have to abide by German laws banning racist sentiment even if it might be allowed in the United States under freedom of speech, Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview with Reuters.

The number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe has passed 300,000 this year, up from 219,000 in the whole of 2014, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.