A Sudanese court Thursday convicted British school teacher Gillian Gibbons of insulting Islam and sentenced her to 15 days in prison for allowing her students to name the class teddy bear Muhammad. Gibbons will serve 10 more...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed into law a measure that will suspend the nation's responsibilities under the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty . The Federation Council of Russia, Russia's upper house, unanimously approved...

All convicted federal felons must provide DNA samples to a federal database available to police departments throughout the country, a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday. Judge Margaret McKeown,...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has formally asked US President George Bush to hand over Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," and two other former members...

Ruling on the White House's Claims of Executive Privilege and Immunity Made in Response to Senate Judiciary Committee Subpoenas, US Senate Judiciary Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, November 29, 2007 [rejecting White House assertions of executive privilege in the ongoing congressional...

Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Caracas, Venezuela on Thursday to voice their opposition to 69 constitutional amendments proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez . The proposed reforms, which will be put to a national...

BP Exploration Alaska (BPXA), a subsidiary of British Petroleum (BP) , pleaded guilty Thursday to violating the Clean Water Act in a case stemming from the March 2006 oil spill at the company's Prudhoe Bay...

Thailand's National Counter-Corruption Commission (NCCC) has approved the creation of three subcommittees to investigate former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and two of his former senior administration officials, according to an NCCC spokesperson...

Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor Thursday indicted 14 former soldiers and paramilitaries on war crimes charges in connection with the October 1991 Lovas Massacre in Croatia, a spokesperson told Reuters. Half...

UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) head Serge Brammertz told the UN Security Council Wednesday that unspecified "persons of interest" have been identified and other progress has been made in...