New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch Tuesday accused the Uzbekistan government of attempting to cover up May a "massacre" in the city of Andijan by blocking an inquiry into the killing of protestors last month by government troops...
In the biggest settlement yet in the Catholic clergy child sex abuse scandal , the Kentucky Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington agreed on Friday to set up a $120 million fund to pay victims. A...
A Miami federal judge has ruled that Florida violated the terms of a 1991 agreement to reduce phosphorus levels in the Everglades. The US Supreme Court previously remanded the case after hearing an appeal [JURIST...
A Syrian man wanted in connection with the Madrid train bombings appeared in a British court on Friday as Spain requested his extradition to face charges. Moutaz Almallah Dabas was arrested in England last month, accused...
Jurors began deliberations Thursday in the retrial of former Tyco International Ltd. top executives L. Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz. The first proceeding ended in a mistrial last April because of outside pressure...
Voters in Switzerland will decide in a referendum set for Sunday June 5 whether gay couples should have the right to register as partners and have legal rights similar to as married couples. A recent poll says 67 percent...
Three US soldiers attached to Fort Carson , Colorado, have been ordered to stand trial for murder in connection with the death of an Iraqi general . Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer, Chief Warrant Officer Jeff L....
In a move to end two weeks of protests , Bolivian President Carlos Mesa Thursday signed a decree for an October 16 election to pick members of a constituent assembly...
A same-sex marriage bill introduced in the California Assembly appears to be dead after coming up four votes short of approval on its third go-round Thursday, making it likely that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will not get...
In the wake of decisive referendum defeats for the proposed EU Constitution this week in France and the Netherlands , UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is expected to announce in the House of Commons...
