A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin to 24 years in prison for organizing a series of contract killings, including the 1998 murder of Vladimir Petukhov, the...
A federal jury in New Orleans on Thursday found Merck negligent for failing to warn doctors about the risks associated with taking the painkiller Vioxx and found that Merck...
The United Nations has opened an investigation into a suspected child prostitution ring in the Democratic Republic of Congo facilitated by UN peacekeepers and Congo soldiers, the UN Mission in DR Congo (MONUC) said...
British authorities investigating a foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean last week released a suspect without charge on Thursday. The suspect was arrested Tuesday. London's Metropolitan Police Service...
Indonesian authorities on Thursday shortened prison sentences for 10 people convicted in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed over 200 people. Nine prisoners with sentences between five and 16 years had their sentences cut...
A federal jury in Raleigh, North Carolina reached a partial verdict Wednesday in the trial of David Passaro , a CIA contractor accused of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan , but...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday praised new British anti-terrorism laws that helped thwart a terror plot to explode jetliners traveling over the Atlantic Ocean, saying that the provision that...
Russia has temporarily halted the extradition of 13 Uzbeks accused of terrorist acts in connection with last year's uprising in Andijan that resulted in the massacre of hundreds unarmed Uzbek civilians...
The British government will likely pardon 306 British soldiers - a number that includes 25 Canadians, 22 Irishmen, and 5 New Zealanders - who were executed for cowardice and desertion during World War I , ending a 16-year campaign...
Patrick Chauke, chairperson of the South African Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs , on Wednesday ruled out an amendment to the South African Constitution legalizing same-sex marriage . Chauke said, however, that a bill legalizing...
