Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi emerged victorious Tuesday after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that EU law could not overrule an Italian law partially decriminalizing false accounting crimes. The...
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on American political and religious leaders to repudiate remarks by evangelist Pat Robertson who said Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos that Muslims should not...
Dennis Rader , the man accused of being Kansas's BTK (bind, torture, kill) serial killer, pleaded not guilty Monday to 10 counts of murder. The BTK killer was suspected of eight murders from 1974 to 1991, but...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Monday heard a bid to restrain same-sex couples from marrying until state residents can vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment banning such marriages. The action was brought by C.J....
In an attempt to break a ten-year deadlock over reforming the United Nations Security Council , Italy suggested Monday that a new system be instituted by which the council would award 10 new seats to regional groups rather...
Zacarias Moussaoui has pleaded guilty to six conspiracy charges connected with the 9/11 attacks that killed more than 3000 people. Upon conviction, he could face the death penalty. Earlier today, Moussaoui's own lawyers had asked...
In an urgent appeal at a press conference in Santiago Friday, a coalition of leading human rights groups urged the Chilean Supreme Court to reconsider its January 25 decision to shut down unconcluded investigations of human rights violations [JURIST...
French commentators suggested Friday that a televised appeal by French President Jacques Chirac in a "town hall"-style meeting with young people broadcast Thursday evening and seen by over 9,000,000 viewers ...
New US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings castigated senior departmental officials Friday over the controversial hiring of conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to plug the No Child Left Behind Act . Williams was investigated by...
Sheik Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, a prominent Sunni cleric of the Association of Muslim Scholars , urged President Jalal Talabani on Friday to fulfill an earlier promise to pardon some 10,500 insurgents imprisoned by US forces. His...
