A French judge on Friday placed former French president Jacques Chirac under preliminary investigation over allegations that he misused public funds while serving as mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. Chirac is accused...

The number of executions that took place in the US in 2009 was down 47 percent from 10 years ago, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) annual report released Friday....

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Friday charged Khieu Samphan , the former head of state during the Khmer Rouge regime, with genocide...

A French court ruled Friday that Google violated French copyright law through its book-scanning initiative . The Parisian court fined Google €300,000 euros (USD $430,000) for digitizing books and making excerpts available on the web....

The UK's 1.2 billion-pound e-Borders program initiated by Prime Minister Gordon Brown will likely be found illegal under European Union (EU) law, the British House of Commons Home Affairs Committee ...

Suspected Mumbai terror attack gunman Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab withdrew his confession in an Indian court Friday, claiming he was tortured and framed by police. Kasab originally pleaded not guilty in May,...

US Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez said Thursday that the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to increase its efforts to prosecute hate crimes. The DOJ brought 25 federal hate crime...

US House of Representatives minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) said Thursday that Congress could potentially block the Obama administration's plan to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center (TCC) in northwestern Illinois to house inmates...

A Pakistani court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Interior Minister Rehman Malik on corruption charges, following Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling striking down an amnesty order . The Supreme Court ruled ...

Russian human rights activist Sergei Kovalev on Wednesday urged the European Union (EU) to hold Russia accountable for human rights violations, in a speech after receiving the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought . Kovalev, joined...