The UK Home Office said Saturday that the government has no plans to create a compulsory DNA database for British citizens, citing ethical and information security concerns. The country's more limited existing National DNA Database [Home Office...

Protests broke out in two Indonesian cities Saturday over the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . Protesters in the world's most populous Muslim country burned Danish...

Serbia's chief prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic said Saturday that Serbia is actively searching for the rioters that set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade last week over US support of independence for Kosovo . Serbian...

Bosnian Serb lawmakers have backed a resolution calling Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia illegal and threatening to call a referendum on their own possible separation from the amalgamated state of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). The resolution, passed...

British troops may have tortured and executed up to 20 Iraqi civilians after a 2004 clash between insurgents and a British convoy in Majar al Kabir , according to evidence released Friday by the lawyers of five Iraqi...

An Iranian official with the country's Supreme National Security Council said Saturday that a potential UN Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions on Iran in connection with its nuclear activities would be "legally and technically baseless," according...

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey and US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said Friday that some telecommunications companies are circumventing wiretapping orders after the temporary Protect America Act expired last week...

Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged the US Friday to adopt preventive measures to stop further crimes by American troops in Japan. The warning comes after a US Marine was arrested last week for allegedly...

United States v James Tobin, US District Court for the District of New Hampshire, February 21, 2008 [acquitting a former Bush campaign staffer of federal telephone harassment charges for his alleged role in a 2002 Democratic vote drive phone-jamming scheme...

The Supreme Court of Belarus Friday ordered a former newspaper editor who had been had been sentenced to three years in prison for reprinting cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad to be released, his lawyer...