A US Marine has been charged with three counts of assault and one count of making a false statement in connection with an incident occurring on April 10 near the village of Hamdania in Iraq, according to a Marine...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard agreed Wednesday to hold a conscience vote on a stem cell research bill allowing therapeutic cloning if a private bill is offered to parliament. A conscience vote is a free...
Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Wednesday rejected a number of complaints concerning congressional races in the July 2 Mexican general election that paralleled the presidential poll currently subject to a...
Philippine legislators on Wednesday quashed a second impeachment complaint against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo . The House Committee on Justice on voted 56-24 to dismiss the impeachment complaint against Arroyo for...
UK Home Secretary John Reid told journalists on Wednesday that in response to threats of terrorism, the civil liberties of individuals must be "balanced" against the "collective right to security." Reid's comments followed his Wednesday appearance before...
British police officials and rights groups have spoken out in response to reports that the UK Department For Transport (DFT) may implement an airplane passenger profiling program to identify potential terrorists in the wake of last week's...
US District Court Judge Sim Lake on Tuesday granted a request by a lawyer for former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay to supplant Lay's name in court records with Lay's estate. As...
A federal district court judge on Tuesday ordered San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada to reveal the source of leaked grand jury testimony they used as background for newspaper reports and a book...
A former vice chair of Wal-Mart was sentenced on Friday to 27 months of house arrest after he pleaded guilty in January to fraud and tax charges for stealing money, merchandise and...
The Italian Interior Ministry said Friday that Italian police arrested 40 people on Thursday and Friday after the ministry decided to conduct security sweeps in cities across Italy following Thursday's news that UK police arrested...
