The UN Security Council agreed Tuesday to turn over more documents to the Independent Inquiry Committee investigating the oil-for-food scandal . The Council will turn over notes from a meeting about the program taken by...
President Bush on Wednesday said "litmus tests" on sensitive issues will not be a part of his search for a nominee to the Supreme Court, while still giving no names or timetable other than reinforcing his plan to have...
The European Parliament voted 648-14 on Wednesday to toss a draft law that would have protected inventions combining software and machinery. Opponents of the proposed law feared that would have...
A new US Department of Defense plan for defending the US from terrorist attacks, quietly approved last month , has raised questions about the level of involvement by the US military on its own soil. The plan,...
The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza on 16 terrorism-related charges , including promoting the murder of Jews and others, began in London Tuesday. Hamza, who pleaded not guilty to all charges in January, was...
The head of a major UN study on worldwide child abuse opened a conference of government and human rights officials from 52 countries in Europe and Central Asia taking place in Slovenia Tuesday...
Iowa Governor Tom Vislack Monday made good on a promise to restore voting rights to convicted felons once their sentences has been served. Last month he announced he would sign an executive order to automatically...
Senior Sunni clerics will soon announce plans to issue a religious edict, or fatwa, encouraging Sunni Muslims in Iraq to join the political process and support the drafting of a new Iraqi constitution, according to Adnan Dulaimi, head of...
A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary Tuesday denied reports that a man convicted of blinding another person would have his eyes surgically removed, saying the country would not carry out such a punishment. Earlier, an...
The province of Quebec asked the Supreme Court of Canada on Monday for an 18-month stay of its ruling that overturned a ban on private health insurance . The court found in favor of a Montreal...
