A group of lawyers called Monday for the formation of an International Finance Court to adjudicate the issues around the Bernard Madoff fraud case. The Madoff Case Global Alliance of Law Firms, established last month [press...

Israeli rights group Yesh Din filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Israel Monday, accusing the State of Israel of violating international law based on the mining operations...

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga announced Monday that US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents from the US Embassy in Nairobi will assist in investigating the killing of two...

US President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday which removed the previous administration's restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. The order fulfills Obama's campaign...

The Chinese government has not accounted for hundreds of Tibetan protesters arrested in connection with the March 2008 demonstrations in Tibet , according to a Monday statement from Human Rights Watch (HRW) , which revealed...

The US Supreme Court decided four cases Monday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Bartlett v. Strickland that a racial minority group that comprises less than 50 percent...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Jones v. Harris Associates , in which the Court will consider whether a shareholder must show that the fund's investment...

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav will be indicted on rape charges for allegedly assaulting several female employees in the 1990s, according to an announcement by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Sunday. Katsav will face...

Twelve of the 92 videotapes destroyed by the CIA contained evidence of "enhanced interrogation techniques," according to redacted documents filed Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ....

US President Barack Obama has distanced himself from remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder in which he characterized the US as a "nation of cowards" on race matters, according to an interview with...