Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has agreed to investigate allegations that government forces and the rebel group Karuna has been using children in its fights against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...
City council members in Farmers Branch, Texas voted Monday to approve several anti-immigration measures including making English the town's official language , imposing fines for landlords who rent to illegal aliens [Ordinance No. 2892...
Prosecutors for the US government Monday denied allegations by Jose Padilla that he was tortured while in US custody at a Navy detention facility in South Carolina. Padilla claims that he was subjected to...
Martha Stewart , her company and its insurers are expecting to pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit regarding Stewart's 2001 sale of ImClone Systems stocks one day before an FDA announcement resulted...
Thai Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas said Thursday that newly installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will likely lift martial law before he leaves for an international summit in Vietnam on November 18. Thailand [JURIST...
China has convicted almost all criminal defendants who have come before the courts over the last nine years, the People's Court Daily reported Thursday. From January 1998 through September 2006, 6.2 million...
US proponents of marijuana legalization took stock Wednesday after voters in Colorado, Nevada and South Dakota rejected mid-term ballot measures that would have decriminalized use of the drug in certain circumstances. In Colorado, voters on Tuesday rejected Amendment 44...
A British immigration judge Wednesday adjourned a hearing after a lawyer in his courtroom refused to remove her Muslim niqab despite being ordered to by the judge because he claimed he could not hear her speak. Shabnam...
Five senior judges from Shenzhen, China have been arrested and 20 other judges implicated in a crackdown on corruption during the months of June to October, the China Daily reported Wednesday. The raids begun after prosecutors...
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that it would review a lower court decision allowing a class action lawsuit filed against the Bush administration's domestic...
