The UK Court of Appeal Wednesday rejected an appeal by four men convicted for plotting the failed bomb attacks on London's subway and bus systems on July 21, 2005, two weeks after a similar attack...

The Federal Court of Australia on Wednesday ruled that a lower court made several errors of law in its 2006 decision giving Aborigines native title to land in the Australian city of Perth, and...

The US government has abandoned a prototype "virtual fence" along the US-Mexico border after the system failed to perform up to expectations, according to Wednesday media reports. The prototype fence, which consists of nine unmanned...

Federal prosecutors filed felony charges Tuesday against Capt. John Joseph Cota, the California maritime pilot accused in the November 2007 spill of approximately 58,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil in the San Francisco Bay. Cota,...

Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," has been released from the hospital and returned to a US detention facility in Baghdad, US military officials said Tuesday. Al-Majid was...

The US Supreme Court handed down its decision Wednesday in Virginia v. Moore , where the Court ruled that Virginia police did not violate Moore's Fourth Amendment right when they arrested...

US District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California on Monday sentenced former Chinese television executive Tai Wang Mak to 10 years in prison for conspiring with his brother, Chi Mak, to smuggle...

US prisons currently house the world's largest inmate population, according to a Wednesday New York Times report citing data provided by the International Center for Prison Studies . The US currently holds 2.3 million inmates, far more...

Former US Justice Department official Robert Coughlin II pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of criminal conflict of interest in connection to his relationship with disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Coughlin, charged ...

Flavio Sosa, a leader of the 2006 popular uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , was released from jail this weekend after prosecutors failed to convict him of any charges related to the uprising. Sosa, a prominent...