The former deputy president of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday announced that she has filed a lawsuit with the court challenging the legality of Egypt's controversial new constitution . Tahani el-Gebali is the only...

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Tuesday called on the Nepal government to cooperate with an investigation into allegations leveled against Nepal Army Colonel Kumar Lama. Lama was arrested in the UK...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Monday was ordered to release its files on child abuse by its employees with full disclosure on all subject matter, totaling nearly 30,000 pages of documents and more than...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday announced a settlement with the federal government to provide full separation payment to service members discharged under the controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy....

Amnesty International (AI) called Monday for Egypt to release an Egyptian journalist facing a military trial in the country. Mohamed Sabry, a journalist and blogger, was arrested Friday by the country's military in the city...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Kansas ruled Monday that a challenge to a 2011 Kansas law prohibiting insurance companies from covering abortions will go...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases on Monday. The first, Descamps v. United States , concerned whether Matthew Descamps' burglary conviction under California law can allow a conviction under federal burglary...

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Sherley v. Sebelius , which appealed a dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell [JURIST...

A Scottish court on Monday granted a request to extradite an alleged member of the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) to France. Benat Atorrasagasti Ordonez, who had relocated to Scotland in...

The highest Bahraini appellate court on Monday upheld the convictions of 13 prominent pro-democracy protestors convicted by military tribunal in 2011 on charges of plotting to overthrow the monarchy. Bahrain's Court of Cassation rejected the appeals [AFP...