A member of the controversial feminist rock collective Pussy Riot filed a lawsuit Tuesday against her former defense lawyer. Group member Yekaterina Samutsevic accused her former lawyer Violetta Volkova...

The constitutional court of Zimbabwe ruled Tuesday that July's presidential elections were fair, effectively allowing President Robert Mugabe to continue his 33-year rule. This ruling is controversial because the complaint by presidential hopeful Morgan...

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that a North Carolina law prohibiting registered sex offenders from commercial social networking websites accessible by children, such as Facebook and Myspace, is unconstitutional. In...

The International Labor Organization (ILO) Maritime Labor Convention came into effect Tuesday. The international standards, originally adopted by the ILO in 2006, required ratification by a minimum of 30 ILO member states to come...

Egyptian authorities on Tuesday arrested Mohammed Badie, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood . Egyptian authorities ordered the arrest of Badie after escalating violence last month resulted in over 50 deaths. Badie...

A Pakistani court on Tuesday officially charged former president Pervez Musharraf with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and facilitation of murder in the 2007 death of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC obituary; JURIST...

The Iraq Ministry of Justice on Monday reported the execution of 15 men and two women convicted of terrorism. The individuals were convicted under Article 4 of Iraq's anti-terrorism...

An Oklahoma County District Court judge on Monday granted an injunction of Oklahoma House Bill 2226 , a state law that requires minors to obtain a prescription for emergency contraception. HB 2226 was challenged by...

A judge for Michigan's Barry County Circuit Court on Monday dismissed a fracking lawsuit by Michigan Land Air Water Defense (MLAWD) against the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) . MLAWD sought ...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed Assembly Bill 3371 into law on Monday, banning licensed therapists from providing sexual orientation conversion services to minors. New Jersey is now the second state to ban such practices...