Prosecutors in the Georgian Republic charged media and financial tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili Thursday with conspiracy to overthrow the Georgian government. Patarkatsishvili allegedly offered a $100 million bribe to a senior police official if he...

The conviction of US Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , the only commissioned officer charged in connection to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal , has been annulled, his lawyer said Thursday....

The state of New York Thursday began a probe into alleged antitrust violations by computer chip giant Intel for possible anticompetitive practices directed at rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) . New York Attorney General...

The Chicago City Council signed off Wednesday on a $19.8 million agreement to settle torture allegations by four former death row inmates against the Chicago police . Labeling the allegations a "black eye," city officials said that they...

A federal judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri held Tuesday that the distribution of Bibles at elementary schools by religious organizations is unconstitutional in violation of the First Amendment , ruling...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing over 100 court cases against landowners along the US-Mexico border who have refused to allow construction of a 670-mile border fence on their properties, DHS officials said Wednesday....

The Constitutional Court of Korea on Thursday approved a special investigation of South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak over fraud allegations relating to stock price-rigging by a former business partner. Lee, who...

Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the US CIA's clandestine branch who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , has told Congress that he will not testify about the videotapes without a...

A Palestinian doctor detained in Libya for eight years after being accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) against Libya...

UK prosecutors Wednesday dropped charges against Dennis Pasquill, a civil servant in the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office who was accused of leaking secret documents about CIA rendition flights to the New Statesman and...