A Ukraine judge on Monday again postponed the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . Judge Kostyantyn Sadovsky for the court in the city of Kharkiv held that it would...

The International Chamber of Commerce International Maritime Bureau (IMB) on Monday reported that the number of global pirate attacks fell sharply in the first half of 2012. The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC)...

An Australian federal court on Monday began hearing two patent infringement cases brought by Apple and Samsung Electronics that are anticipated to last for the next three months. Apple has sued Samsung for infringing numerous patents by...

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) on Friday upheld a ruling by its administrative law judge (ALJ) that Apple and Research in Motion (RIM) did not illegitimately use digital image preview technology patented...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday heard arguments in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office (AMP), an ongoing case that challenged a Utah company's patent on two genes...

The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines announced Monday that it will investigate a recently discovered mass grave containing at least 30 suspected victims of the country's military coup in the 1980s. The chairwoman of the...

The Israeli government on Sunday requested that the Supreme Court of Israel block the planned evacuation of the Migron settlement in the West Bank . The court had earlier insisted upon an August...

Massachusetts resident Rezwan Ferdaus entered his guilty plea in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Friday to charges of plotting to attack the Pentagon using small remote-controlled airplanes carrying explosives. Ferdaus...

Attorneys in two cases challenging the constitutionality of the 2006 renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) filed petitions on Friday with the US Supreme Court asking it to settle the issue in its upcoming...

The Obama administration on Friday amended regulations to offer same-sex domestic partners of federal employees some retirement benefits. The new regulation adds "same-sex domestic partners to the class of persons for which an insurable interest is presumed...