Israel's Knesset approved legislation on Monday to grant immunity to approximately 400 protesters involved in violent protests in connection with the 2005 removal of settlers in the Gaza Strip . The...

The French parliamentary commission charged with investigating whether to enact laws banning the wearing of burqas or other "full veils" released its report Tuesday calling for a partial ban. The panel urged...

The Supreme Court of California ruled 5-2 Monday to authorize the use of "John Doe" arrest warrants, which replace an unknown suspect's name with his or her DNA profile as the unique identifier. Prosecutors have increasingly...

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside of the Forsenics Lab of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior's Criminal Investigation Department on Tuesday, killing 21 people and injuring at least 80 others. The building collapsed shortly...

A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced four more people to death in connection with the July Xinjiang riots . The Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi sentenced eight others to life in prison and one to the death penalty...

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday a federal ban on texting while driving for commercial truck and bus drivers. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that the prohibition will take effect...

A Russian court on Monday awarded an HIV-positive woman custody of her younger brother. Svetlana Izambayeva sought custody rights in February after her mother's death left the boy orphaned, but was denied by a city court...

Luzerne County District Attorney Jacqueline Musto Carroll agreed on Monday to drop efforts to retry 46 juveniles whose original convictions were overturned because they had been issued by a judge indicted on federal corruption charges...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Canadian Competition Bureau reached an agreement on Monday to allow the merger between Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. and Live Nation, Inc. . The two companies agreed to...

The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court confirmed on Monday that three former Bosnian Serb policemen have been indicted on charges of genocide for their alleged roles in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the...