The Serbian government filed an amicus curiae on Friday in a Nevada court seeking to block the execution of a Serbian citizen on the grounds that the country's consulate was not informed of the man's arrest in 1994. Serbia...

The corruption and murder trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resumed on Monday. Mubarak is on trial for murder, attempted killing of protesters and other charges related to general abuse of power...

Three environmental groups on Saturday filed an emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit requesting that the court halt wolf hunts scheduled to begin in a few weeks in Idaho...

Brazilian Judge Patricia Acioli, known for taking a hard-line against corrupt officials and militia death squads, was shot and killed on Thursday outside of her home by two masked men on motorbikes. Investigators revealed that at least twelve people...

An Egyptian criminal court on Sunday adjourned the trial of former interior minister Habib el-Adly. Judge Ahmed Rifaat ordered four recesses in the first three hours of the morning's proceedings in response to conduct by defense counsel that he...

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission on Friday released a report contending that military and law enforcement officials routinely conduct illegal searches in their efforts to combat the country's narcotics trade. The...

Chinese authorities in Beijing on Friday began the trial against Wang Lihong, one of the dozens of human rights activists the government detained earlier this year as part of a crackdown on dissidents in the country. Wang is charged...

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of ex-Merrill Lynch executive James Brown stemming from his role in the Enron fraud scandal . Brown was indicted on five counts in 2003...

A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming on Friday struck down a set of administrative rules advanced by the Obama administration last year that placed stricter limits on environmental impact requirements...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled 2-1 Friday that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is unconstitutional. Although the decision...