• The seven stand accused of conspiring to intercept voicemails between October 2000 and August 2006.

    BBC: Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks formally charged

  • Its members stand accused of beating immigrants and vandalising some of the underground prayer rooms.

    BBC: Athens - the EU capital city without a mosque

  • Firms granting share options to employees stand accused of picking dates with particularly favourable prices.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate scandals

  • In South Africa, those entrusted with enforcing the country's "tolerant laws" now stand accused of re-traumatizing victims.

    CNN: Horror of South Africa's 'corrective rape'

  • Exam boards stand accused of setting the grade boundaries too generously in January and too harshly in June.

    BBC: GCSE English: How is it marked?

  • Japan and Germany stand accused of demanding too lax an inspection regime for fear, critics allege, of commercial theft.

    ECONOMIST: Has George Bush ever met a treaty that he liked?

  • Lau and fellow tycoon Steven Lo, the chairman of BMA Investment, stand accused of bribery and money laundering.

    FORBES: Hong Kong Billionaire Too Sick For Corruption Trial, But Prosecutors Say Otherwise

  • If the IMF say what is blindingly obvious then the institution will stand accused of destabilising already fragile European finances.

    FORBES: When "Greece Good Enough" Is Simply Not Good Enough

  • The authorities stand accused of stifling media freedom and of silencing opposition.

    BBC: Ingushetia profile

  • He and five others stand accused of plotting to overthrow Zimbabwe's 87-year-old president, Robert Mugabe (pictured above), after watching a video of the uprisings against ageing Middle Eastern dictators.

    ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

  • Councils such as Tory-controlled Hammersmith and Fulham in London that are selling off buildings used by charities stand accused of undermining the voluntary activity the Big Society is supposed to encourage.

    ECONOMIST: The Big Society

  • Stewart and her company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Lagasse and HSN stand accused of trademark infringement for selling knives claimed to be made in Solingen, a region in northern Germany known for making high quality cutlery.

    FORBES: Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse Hit With Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit

  • Mr Zardari may be the biggest winner from all the muck-spreading, as his tormentors in the media, the army and now even the judiciary stand accused of the kind of sleaze that has dogged him for years.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan

  • Four young men who stand accused of taking part in cyber attacks with the hacktivist collective Anonymous, avoided stricter bail sentences today, which might have blocked them from accessing social networking site Twitter and video messaging site TinyChat.

    FORBES: Court Lets Anonymous Suspects Keep Using Twitter

  • At the most basic level, financial markets stand accused of knowingly selling over-priced shares by claiming they were cheap, and of doing so in ways that benefited some of their customers (and themselves) to the detriment of others.

    ECONOMIST: Wall Street

  • Bayer and its corporate predecessors stand accused of developing and testing a genetically modified strain of rice that contaminated the U.S. commercial rice supply, leading rice companies around the world to restrict U.S. rice imports and rice prices to drop.

    FORBES: Bayer Aims To Cork Mention Of BP Spill In Court

  • "By arrogantly insisting on the most expensive scheme of all and crudely dismissing attempts by the Conservatives and others to suggest alternatives, the Lib-Lab pact stand accused of gross incompetence and an indecent disregard for the public finances, " he said.

    BBC: Passenger boarding a train

  • The Georgians stand accused of posing a threat to Russian security because they cannot or will not take effective action against the Chechen fighters, possibly allied with Islamist extremists from elsewhere, who have set up camp in the remote Pankisi gorge.

    ECONOMIST: Russia and Georgia

  • Five people are to stand trial accused of human trafficking for allegedly bringing two women to Scotland "with the intent to exploit them".

    BBC: Tayside and Central Scotland

  • Two men are to stand trial accused of murdering three members of the same family by setting fire to their home in Helensburgh, West Dunbartonshire.

    BBC: Thomas Sharkey Snr, Bridget and Thomas Jnr

  • Two men have made a final appearance in court before they stand trial accused of murdering three members of the same family in a house fire.

    BBC: Thomas Sharkey Snr, Bridget and Thomas Jnr

  • Mr Dizaei is due to stand trial again early next year accused of misconduct in a public office and perverting the course of justice.

    BBC: Dizaei: I will clear my name

  • The New York Times has an interesting article today on two lawyers, both of whom accused Microsoft of squelching competition back in 1998 but now stand on the opposite side of the fence when it comes to Google.

    FORBES: Stock up as Google and FTC Reportedly Close to Deal

  • Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the first minister would rather "cosy up than stand up to Rupert Murdoch" and accused him of a "grubby deal" with the media tycoon.

    BBC: Scottish Parliament

  • Prosecutors had accused Krentcil of allowing her daughter inside a stand-up tanning booth at a salon in the northern New Jersey town of Nutley.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • He accused Home Secretary Theresa May of failing to stand up for the Home Office during the government's Comprehensive Spending Review, which will be published next month.

    BBC: Policing budget cuts blamed on 'warped priorities'

  • Ms Flint claimed 25% of households in England and Wales are now in fuel poverty and accused the government of being "unable to stand up to vested interests in the energy industry".

    BBC: Democracy Live site links

  • While the President was campaigning to change the constitution to allow him to stand for office beyond the limit of two terms, Baduel accused the President of attempting to usurp the constitutional powers of the Venezuelan people.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez's prisoners

  • They accused President Saakashvili of corruption and authoritarianism and demanded he stand down.

    BBC: Demonstration in Tbilisi on 28 September

  • Demonstrators, including women and children, accused Arab governments of "cowardice" for not taking a stand against the war.

    CNN: Antiwar demonstrations turn deadly

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