A human rights activist for Frontline Defenders reported Friday that the lawyer representing a Bahraini blogger held by authorities has been detained himself days after alleging his client had been tortured while in police...

Harbinger Capital filed $1.9 billion dollar lawsuit Friday against Deere & Co and global positioning system (GPS) companies, including Garmin International and Trimble Navigation Ltd. , claiming the defendants bankrupted the wireless company LightSquared...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday issued a statement urging Egyptian political parties to avoid provocations and consider approaches that would foster an inclusive political process favoring reconciliation. Tension and political divisiveness in Egypt has continued...

US President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law H.R. 1911, the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 , lowering interest rates on student loans. The interest rates will drop to 3.86 percent for...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Sunday that the Islamic State of Iraq , a suspected al Qaeda branch, had committed crimes against humanity during the July 29 bombings in Iraq. The Islamic State...

Independent UN experts on Friday called for the repeal of recently passed legislation in Uganda limiting the size of public demonstrations. Known as the Public Order Management Bill, passed on Tuesday , Uganda now prohibits protests [UN press...

A federal judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday denied Apple's request for a temporary suspension of the court's July ruling that Apple violated the...

The International Trade Commission (ITC) on Friday ruled that Samsung infringed two patents of Apple . The two patents involves the detection of users' finger movements on smartphone touchscreens and the way its plugs...

President Barack Obama on Friday gave a speech proposing a four-step reform to increase the credibility and legitimacy of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) . The first step will reform...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Philippine government to act to bring the killers of three local journalists to justice and stop further violence. On July 30 unknown assailants shot and killed Richard...