In a reversal of his position from only a day earlier, Bosnian Prime Minister Adnan Terzic announced Thursday that he would form a commission to probe war crimes carried out in the current capital city of Sarajevo...
Telecommunications company Qwest on Friday explained its decision to deny the National Security Agency (NSA) access to its customers' telephone records in contrast to competitors AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth which allowed that. According to a...
A UK bill that would let British doctors present the option of assisted suicide to patients with less than six months to live who are experiencing "extreme suffering" stalled Friday in the British House of Lords...
A lawyer for former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma , who earlier this week was acquitted in a rape case , called for Zuma's upcoming corruption trial to move quickly through the court system in order...
The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) and the Connecticut Bar Association have filed a lawsuit arguing that the new federal bankruptcy law enacted in October 2005, unlawfully impedes the...
South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk was indicted Friday on charges of fraud, embezzling research funds and breaching bioethics laws. Hwang announced in 2005 that his research team had created patient-specific stem cell lines along with...
As expected , corruption charges against former Indonesian dictator General Suharto were dropped Friday after a court determined last month that Suharto was unfit to stand trial . Suharto was ousted from power after 32...
A recent report from the UN Mission in DR Congo finds that despite a decrease in large-scale human rights abuses at the hands of the military in the Congo , individual...
Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky has been charged with criminal conspiracy, official misconduct and political discrimination as part of an ongoing investigation into the governor's hiring practices . In a press release responding to the...
Faced with chronic security problems along the US border with Mexico, the Pentagon is exploring options in which the military can be utilized to alleviate some of the burden on US border patrol agents who are stretched too thin....
