United Nations human rights experts Friday condemned a proposed Nigerian law banning gay marriage and tightening laws criminalizing homosexuality in the country. While engaging in homosexual acts in Nigeria is already punishable by death by...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a plan to release some prisoners convicted of nonviolent crime to alleviate the burden on Californias overcrowded prison system . The move comes in response to...
Tech giants Cisco Systems and Apple, Inc. have settled their trademark dispute over the use of the name "iPhone", the companies announced Wednesday. Cisco filed a lawsuit against Apple in mid-January, and under...
A 50-year-old Iraqi woman has accused Iraqi forces of rape, an Iraqi official said Thursday, the second such accusation in a week. The attack on the Sunni woman and her two daughters allegedly occurred less than two weeks ago...
A federal judge declared Wednesday that an anti-Castro militant who allegedly was behind the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner will stay in jail pending trial on charges of lying on a naturalization application. Luis...
The England and Wales Court of Appeals (Criminal Division) ruled Friday that UK terrorism laws do not allow for a "freedom fighter" defense . The defendant in the case, a Libyan identified as "F", was arrested...
A Turkish court sentenced the conspirators of the 2003 Istanbul bombings Friday, handing down seven life sentences. In addition, 41 of the 74 defendants received prison sentences ranging from four to 18 years; the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that the United States has consistently failed to investigate and prosecute allegations of abuse of Afghan detainees. The group welcomed this week's prison sentence for CIA contractor...
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly failing to report gifts and payments given by a defense technology company that received secret military contracts while Gibbons was still a US congressman, an...
Canada's conservative government retreated Thursday from earlier statements that the government would ignore a bill (C-288) passed by the House of Commons Wednesday requiring the government to establish a plan within 60 days...
