The trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko resumed on Tuesday after a two-week recess with prosecutors asking the court to sentence Tymoshenko to seven years in prison and bar her...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in eight cases, consolidating two for oral arguments. In Filarsky v. Delia , the court will consider whether a lawyer retained to work...

Kashmir's Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced on Tuesday that officials will carry out DNA tests on the thousands of bodies recently uncovered in unmarked graves in the country's northern region. Abdullah called for families of missing persons...

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida on Monday began reviewing the lawsuit challenging a Florida state law requiring drug testing before welfare applicants can receive benefits. Judge Mary Scriven heard...

A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Monday indefinitely delayed the sentencing of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich . Blagojevich was scheduled to be sentenced on...

The Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education voted on Monday to grant in-state college tuition rates at Rhode Island state institutions to children whose parents immigrated to the US illegally. The decision is seen by...

The Obama administration on Monday declined to seek en banc review by the full US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit of its August decision striking down the individual mandate provision of the health...

Amnesty International (AI) urged Thailand on Tuesday to stop the insurgents' deliberate targeting of civilians in Southern Thailand. The pressure on Thailand comes after AI released a report detailing the deliberate attacks against...

Libyan transitional justice minister Mohammed al-Alagi said Monday that he plans to abolish the nation's security prosecution and court and the state security appeals court. The state security court system had been used to jail thousands of dissidents and...

The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was suspended Monday until next month amid bias claims. Lawyers for the families of the anti-Mubarak protesters who were killed argued to the Cairo Appeals...