The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a British ban on parent and children-in-law marriages violated rights guaranteed by Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights . A man...
UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines , filed its reorganization plan and disclosure statement in US bankruptcy court Wednesday, before the recently extended November 1 expiration of its exclusive ability to...
Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky officially notified the district election commission Wednesday of his plans to run for the Moscow legislature in the December election, according to his lawyer Anton...
Indonesia released over 1,400 Achenese rebel inmates Wednesday, granting them blanket amnesty in accordance with a decree signed by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Tuesday night. The newly freed prisoners have agreed to honor their monumental peace accord [PDF...
US District Court Judge Denise Cote has ruled that a suit filed by the First Presbyterian Church of Sudan against Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy should continue, despite US and Canadian government attempts to have...
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge James L. Ryan issued an order Thursday allowing corrections officials to forcibly feed and hydrate John Allen Muhammad , who received the death penalty for a murder during the 2002 Beltway...
DNA evidence has confirmed that remains exhumed from a suburban Chicago cemetery in June are those of Emmett Till , a 14-year-old African American boy slain in Mississippi in 1955. The exhumation was the final step...
Lawyers for Osman Hussein , apprehended in Rome as a suspect in the failed July 21 London bombing attacks , Friday challenged an Italian court's approval of his extradition to Britain . According to...
US Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has asked the FBI for "all information and documents it has" pertaining to "Able Danger" , the US Army intelligence program alleged to have identified Mohammed Atta ...
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday that it, along with an unnamed library, has filed suit in the US District Court of Connecticut against US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller...
