Three days after a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a lower court ruling and struck down a Hawaiian school policy of only admitting native Hawaiians , nearly 15,000 people...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected a US government plan that would have allowed vast undeveloped areas of the country's largest national forest to be...
Two technology privacy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to block a proposal that would give the US Department of Justice broad powers to listen-in on cellphone calls and monitor online computer activity by airline passengers....
Ismael Diallo, Chief of the Human Rights Division of the UN Operation in Burundi , has deplored ongoing rights violations in the central African state, indicating that 53 summary executions of civilians were reported in Burundi in July...
Former WorldCom accounting executive Betty Vinson was sentenced Friday to five months in jail with an additional five months under house arrest for her role in the $11 billion fraud at the telecommunications giant that resulted in its bankruptcy....
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday announced a planned summit meeting of Australian state leaders and security advisors next month to mull over ways to reduce Australia's vulnerability to terrorist attacks. Howard is debating whether terror...
The Pentagon has released 32 new or recently uncensored images of the coffins of US soldiers and agreed to quickly fulfill any future Freedom of Information Act requests for images of US war casualties. The release...
US ambassador Joseph LeBaron was called Thursday to Mauritania's foreign ministry in Nouakchott by the Military Council for Justice and Democracy, a militia group that has taken control of the West African nation. LeBaron met with leaders...
In a report issued Friday, human rights group Amnesty International claimed that the abuses currently taking place in China are directly related to the country's preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games to be held...
In a victory for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf , the country's Supreme Court Thursday blocked a proposal by the Islamist-controlled North-West Frontier Province to introduce a set of controversial morals laws to be enforced...
