Two campaigners known as the "McLibel Two" should have been given legal aid by the British government to defend themselves against a libel action by the food giant McDonald's, Europe's highest court ...

Twenty years ago last month a small anarchist group called London Greenpeace - nothing to do with the environmentalists - began a campaign to "expose the reality" behind what they called the ...

Ronald McDonald recently appeared as an interviewee on a cable-news show, which tells you more about TV news than it does about McDonald’s. But hey, why not? Most guests on those shows stick to the ...

McDonald's famously sued two green campaigners, Helen Steel and David Morris, over the leaflet An undercover police officer posing as an environmental activist co-wrote the leaflet at the centre of ...

In the infamous McLibel case of the 1990s, McDonald's took two environmentalists to court under Britain's harsh libel laws for a pamphlet that charged the chain with various sins against workers, ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The British government violated the rights of two vegetarian activists convicted of libeling the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The ...

The European court ruling that two activists should have been allowed legal aid in their libel battle with McDonald's is just the latest of many twists in the longest case in English legal history.

After working overtime to counter the claims made by Morgan Spurlock in his hit doc “Super Size Me,” McDonald’s is bracing for a second wave of docu-driven controversy. The spin battle began anew last ...

McDonald's famously sued two green campaigners, Helen Steel and David Morris, over the leaflet An undercover police officer posing as an environmental activist co-wrote the leaflet at the centre of ...

Two activists should have been given legal aid in their long fight against a McDonald's libel action, a court says. The European Court of Human Rights said the lack of such aid effectively denied the ...