The Argentine Chamber of Deputies voted 126-109 Wednesday in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the country. The bill would also give gay couples the right to adopt children...

The Sri Lankan Parliament on Wednesday eased certain restrictions under the country's state of emergency laws, which have been in place for most of the last 27 years. Lawmakers voted to extend the state of emergency [Colombo...

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service announced Tuesday that the public prosecutor for the Utrecht District Court filed an appeal against the April 22 ruling acquitting the Arab European League...

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the use of so-called "truth drugs" and lie detector tests in criminal investigations. The court held that the involuntary use of narcoanalysis and polygraph tests "amount to an...

The New York Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, issued two rulings Tuesday expanding the rights of nonbiological gay and lesbian parents. In one case, the court ruled 7-0 that a lesbian can assert...

A Syrian native held in Canada for more than eight years on a national security certificate on Tuesday sued the Canadian government for negligence and false imprisonment. Hassan Almrei filed suit [CP...

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday on whether DC voters should be allowed to decide on same-sex marriage in the city. While appeals are normally decided by a three-judge panel,...

Two US lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled draft legislation aimed at protecting Internet privacy. Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Cliff Stearns (R-FL) proposed the bill as a means to regulate how websites track...

US Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad will face terrorism charges for his alleged role in an attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square. Shahzad was taken...

A Honduran truth and reconciliation commission on Tuesday began investigating the June 2009 coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from power. The commission is tasked with understanding what happened before, during,...