Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawyer on the defense team for suspended Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry complained Wednesday before the Supreme Court of Pakistan that his legal team was under "enormous government...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted Wednesday to approve new interpretive guidelines for Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , relaxing previous guidelines which critics have called inflexible,...
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) and State Insurance Superintendent Eric R. Dinallo announced Wednesday that Silverstein Properties , which owns a 99-year lease of the World Trade Center site, has...
Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz ruled Thursday that charges against three US soldiers for homicide and a "crime against the international community" in the 2004 death in Iraq of cameraman Jose Couso should...
The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) said Wednesday that a controversial 700-mile fence along the US-Mexican border may violate the 1970 Boundary Treaty , which resolved all pending boundary differences between the...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that a federal judge presiding over the criminal tax fraud prosecution of accounting firm KPMG improperly exercised ancillary jurisdiction over a...
Chinese government authorities detained 28 people for either their alleged role in riots in southwestern China over the weekend or communicating information concerning the riots, according to reports from Xinhua, China's state media agency. Xinhua said that...
Suspended Romanian President Trian Basescu was reinstated Wednesday after the Romanian Constitutional Court certified results of a weekend referendum where 74 percent of voters rejected Basescu's impeachment . Basescu was...
Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan condemned the United States and other "Western democratic states" Wednesday for what she characterized as attempts "to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights" in their efforts to fight terrorism. Khan's...
The Paris Court of Appeal Tuesday raised the sentences of nine Islamic militants convicted of "criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise" from nine years to the maximum of 10 years in prison. The...
