Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said that criminal defamation charges against four critics would be dropped after he received letters from the four apologizing for the incident. Hun Sen faced increasing international...
A federal judge on Monday ruled that the US Department of Defense must release the names of detainees being held as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay . District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected...
US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito is expected to take the first step toward confirmation Tuesday, with an already apparent approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee . All ten Republicans on the committee have announced...
The federal trial of former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell on charges of corruption opened Tuesday with jury selection. Campbell, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2002, has strongly denied charges of racketeering, fraud...
An Austrian arbitration court has ruled that the country must return $150 million in artwork to the heir of the family from whom the works were seized by the Nazis, bringing to a close a case that wound its...
In addition to its ruling in the Oregon assisted suicide case, the US Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the citizenship of a bank to the state in which its main office is located for purposes...
The UK House of Lords has blocked government plans to issue national identification cards , objecting to three aspects of the proposal including questions of cost. The Lords on Monday voted to halt the...
US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito on Tuesday told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would keep an open mind on the issue of abortion and that the president was not...
South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday that they will open a criminal investigation into South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk , a day after an investigation concluded that Hwang's acclaimed research on stem cells was fake. Reports suggest that prosecutors...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states have no immunity from private lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if the state has violated the Fourteenth Amendment. In United States v. Georgia [Duke...
