An overwhelming 98.8 percent of voters in Southern Sudan's Independence Referendum last week voted in favor of secession according to preliminary results released Saturday by the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission . The poll results are not...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger approved a settlement on Friday effectively limiting the use of seniority in layoffs in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) . The class action suit against...

The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) on Friday filed suit against the US Department of Education (DOE) in federal court seeking to overturn three regulations promulgated by the department. The...

Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo went to trial on Friday facing charges of embezzlement . Portillo denies accusations that he diverted approximately USD $15 million in funds from the Ministry of Defense while he...

Amnesty International (AI) announced Friday that Haitian authorities will investigate crimes committed against humanity allegedly committed under the rule of Jean-Claude Duvalier during the 1970s and 80s. The announcement comes one day after...

The appellate division of the War Crimes Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Friday sentenced Sefik Alic, a Muslim commander, to 10 years in prison, overturning his 2008 acquittal. The prosecutor appealed the original...

A Paris criminal court on Friday convicted former Vivendi SA chairman and CEO Jean-Marie Messier of misleading investors during his tenure at the helm of the French entertainment giant. Canadian Edgar Bronfman Jr., former vice-chairman of Vivendi...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday denied a request to throw out the conviction of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani...

Nine former ethnic Albanian guerrillas have been sentenced to a total of 101 years in prison for killings committed after the Kosovo war ended. Belgrade's War Crimes Chamber of the Senior Court...

A British court on Friday approved the extradition of alleged al Qaeda operative Abid Naseer to the US, where he will stand trial on several charges of terrorism , including providing material support to...