The Australian Senate voted Tuesday to lift restrictions on stem cell research and permit the therapeutic cloning of human embryos. By a 34-32 vote, lawmakers approved the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of...
Thai Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud Tuesday proposed a plan to the country's new military-led Council for National Security for lifting martial law in peaceful areas of the country. He...
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has failed to treat violence against women as criminal conduct, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday. The 101-page report entitled "A Question of...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has dropped charges previously filed against ABC's "NYPD Blue" and CBS's "The Early Show," holding Monday that the shows were not indecent based on language content. The FCC...
The US Marshals Service captured over 10,000 fugitives last week, the largest number apprehended in a single enforcement effort in US history, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Thursday. During the press conference , Gonzales said that...
The Center for Digital Democracy and the US Public Interest Research Group have filed a 50-page complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking it to look into allegedly "deceptive and unfair"...
The Sierra Legal Defence Fund petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday on behalf of thirteen Canadian cities - including Toronto, Windsor and Halifax - to mandate the reduction of air pollution from 150 coal-fired...
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has signed an order allowing Guatemala to extradite former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo so that he can face charges of embezzlement for alleged misuse...
Leading US auto supplier Delphi has settled civil fraud charges brought against it by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) , the SEC announced Monday. The SEC complaint alleged that "between...
Russian human rights activists held vigil in Lubyanka Square, former KBG headquarters and current location of the Federal Security Service, in Moscow on Monday to commemorate victims of political persecution during the Soviet Era and to protest current prosecution...
