The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick that a federal law requiring copyright holders to register their...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 7-2 in Johnson v. United States that a "violent felony" requires the use of physical force. The court found that...

Turkish prosecutors have charged an army general and a state prosecutor with belonging to the Ergenekon network and plotting to uproot Turkey's ruling Justice Development Party (AKP) [party website, in...

The widow of assassinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana , Agathe Habyarimana, was arrested Tuesday in France on suspicions of complicity in genocide and was later released on bail. French police complied with an international arrest warrant issued by...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday overturned a law requiring telecommunications providers to store information on telephone calls, e-mails, and Internet use for six months for use in possible terrorism investigations,...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged Egypt to investigate the shootings of 60 unarmed migrants since July 2007 on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Israeli border. The majority of those...

Several human rights groups and anti-mine activists on Monday urged the US to join the Mine Ban Treaty , marking the eleventh anniversary of the treaty's status as binding international law. Despite initial statements from the US...

The Paris Criminal Court on Monday asked the highest court of appeal, the Court of Cassation , to determine the constitutionality of police custody under article 63-4 of the code of criminal procedure. The request...

UK police on Monday arrested former Bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic for war crimes in connection with a 1992 attack against Serbian soldiers. Ganic, vice president during the outset of the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war , was...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in three cases, including the case of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling . In Skilling v. United States [oral...