The Supreme Court of Taiwan Thursday upheld a December 2007 ruling by the Taiwan High Court acquitting Taiwanese President-elect Ma Ying-jeou on graft charges. Prosecutors had filed an appeal ...

The German Bundestag , the lower house of parliament, voted 515-58 Thursday to approve the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon ....

A Georgia court has scheduled the execution of a convicted killer after the US Supreme Court last week upheld Kentucky's lethal injection protocol , ending a de facto national moratorium on the death penalty. William Earl...

The High Court in London ruled Thursday that the British Treasury Department may not freeze the assets of suspected terrorists without going through Parliament first. Five UK terror suspects who had their assets frozen ...

Former White House advisor Karl Rove was allegedly involved in a 2004 scheme to have Chicago-based US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald fired, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. According to the prosecutor, a witness at the...

The trial of former Saddam Hussein-era Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and six others will begin next week, an Iraqi judicial official said Wednesday. The seven former officials face charges related to the 1992...

A federal judge has ruled that a school district in Louisiana must stop allowing the distribution of Bibles in schools, saying that the distribution is "a religious activity without a secular purpose" in violation of the First...

FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that he had advised officials at the Departments of Justice and Defense that some interrogation tactics employed against terror suspects...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday adjourned a hearing to consider an appeal by former Cambodian head of state Khieu Samphan against his detention after Samphan's...

Federal prosecutors said at a hearing Wednesday that they would press for a third terrorism prosecution of six men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in...