Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa won a criminal libel claim on Thursday against the owners and a columnist of newspaper El Universo , resulting in...

The Australian government announced Thursday that it will sue former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks for royalties from his memoir. Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being...

Guinea authorities have arrested between 70 and 80 suspects accused of plotting an attack on President Alpha Conde Wednesday. Assailants launched rocket-propelled grenades at Condes' home, and three people were killed, including one of his bodyguards. The...

A judge in the Court of Metropolitan Sessions, a criminal court in Bangladesh, on Wednesday indicted 430 people for their roles in a February 2009 mutiny . Bangladesh has conducted a series of military and...

Ohio Governor John Kasich on Wednesday signed into law a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks. The legislation requires doctors to determine the viability of the fetus and seek a...

Former hedge fund trader Danielle Chiesi was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to three criminal counts of conspiracy...

Council of Europe (COE) Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg on Wednesday condemned the flurry of burqa and niqab bans that have been implemented recently around...

At least 400 inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison have been on a hunger strike since the end of June and are being joined by prisoners in at least 10 other California prisons. Inmates of Pelican Bay's...

Top Republican lawmakers on Wednesday urged US President Barack Obama to define terror suspect interrogation, detention and prosecution procedures. In a letter to the president, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Howard...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday extended settlement negotiations for an additional two months in The Authors Guild et al v. Google Inc. , a copyright...