A Milan court on Monday set a timetable for hearings in the underage sex trial of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , setting the last session of the trial for early March, two weeks...

The second International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced to death 64-year-old televangelist Abul Kalam Azad, also known as "Bachchu Razakar," for crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War ....

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that it will not withdraw charges of conspiracy against five accused plotters of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed . Chief Guantanamo prosecutor,...

Malian security forces have killed civilians in the town of Niono in central Mali, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Saturday. HRW said that Mali's army has been targeting ethnic groups associated with rebels in...

More than 140 nations gathered in Geneva for a UN forum agreed on Saturday to a legally binding treaty addressing the use of mercury, a metal that is infamous for its detrimental effects on health and the...

Federal prosecutors on Friday filed charges against Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for alleged real estate fraud involving a short sale of her...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri on Friday ended their challenge to a 2011 Kansas law that restricts private health insurance companies from offering coverage for abortions...

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been charged with murder for her role in the contract-style killing of Yevhen Shcherban and two others in 1996, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka...

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted what may be the final four cases it will hear this term. After being considered in conference eight times, the court granted Bond v. United States [cert....

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated on Friday that the continued violence in Syria is harming civilian human rights...