UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council Tuesday that he has asked the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish an independent commission that will investigate the recent surge in...
A federal judge has granted a defense request to dismiss a criminal charge that W.R. Grace & Co. and its executives knowingly endangered miners and residents of Libby, Montana by concealing health risks...
As expected , the new government of Nepal dropped terrorism charges against 190 Maoist rebels on Tuesday and freed them from jails in nine cities, a Home Ministry spokesman said. About 160 rebels...
Four defense witnesses in the trial of Saddam Hussein said Monday that they were coerced into testifying by the former Iraqi president's bodyguards and coached by his lead lawyer. Two of the witnesses said in confessions...
A family court judge in Reno, Nevada, was shot while standing near a courthouse window Monday, and police are searching for a sniper. Judge Chuck Weller , of the Second Judicial District Court in...
The US Department of Justice on Monday argued in court for the first time that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program is legal. Anthony J. Coppolino, special litigation counsel for the DOJ, argued...
A court in Indonesia ruled Monday that the country's attorney general must reopen corruption charges against former President Suharto , saying that the charges should not have been dropped, but Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh...
A prominent British medical ethicist is advocating the legalization of euthanasia, including for patients incapable of consent. Len Doyal , emeritus professor of medical ethics at Queen Mary, University of London, writes in this month's issue of Clinical...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his Cabinet have announced that the federal government will set aside legislation allowing same-sex civil unions in the Australian Capital Territory , the federal district that includes...
UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith will call for prosecutors to study whether the British court-martial system is adequate for prosecuting soldiers accused of misconduct in Iraq , the Times of London reported Wednesday. The...
