The former Nigerian education minister, former senate leader, and five other Nigerian lawmakers went on trial for corruption Monday in the capital city of Abuja. Ex-Education Minister Fabian Osuji is accused of paying a $400,000 bribe to parliament in...
Britain's General Medical Council , the body that registers and regulates British doctors, went to court Monday to clarify a 2004 ruling on a patient's right to treatment. Leslie Burke , who suffers from a...
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a former computer science professor and three others accused of funding a terrorist group responsible for a bombing in Israel. Sami Al-Arian is charged with...
Russian judges on Monday found oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty on six counts in his trial for fraud in connection with his management of the YUKOS oil company . Reading of the verdict...
An Indonesian appeals court has upheld a two-and-a-half year sentence for Abu Bakar Ba'asyir , convicted in March for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings . The defense argued that the conviction wasn't based...
Egypt Sunday denied a recent Human Rights Watch report accusing it of torturing terror suspects transferred there by the US. The organization had accused Egypt of torturing prisoners which it said were transferred...
On a visit to Iraq Sunday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Shiite- and Kurd-dominated government to involve the Sunni Arabs - estimated to make up anywhere from 20% to over 50% of...
Pope Benedict XVI was officially installed as the 265th head of the Catholic Church on Sunday, receiving the symbolic pallium and the Ring of the Fisherman , and celebrating...
Syria, listed by the US since 1979 as a state sponsor of terrorism, has signed on to a UN treaty designed to block funding of terrorist activities, according to a UN official speaking Sunday. Syria becomes the...
Four current leaders and a former European Commission president have this weekend urged French voters to adopt the new European constitution in a May 29 referendum, warning that rejection could have dire...
