United Nations researchers called for a global ban on human cloning in a report issued Saturday. The United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies did not call for a ban on all types of cloning,...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Saturday promulgated an amending ordinance to the Army Act of 1952 allowing military courts to try civilians on a wide-range of charges ranging from treason to "assaulting the president." The act as amended also gives...

Women's rights activist Delaram Ali is to begin a sentence of 34 months in prison and 10 lashes Saturday, despite leniency pleas from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Change for Equality [advocacy...

Malaysian police Saturday fired tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators participating in an unauthorised election reform rally held by the electoral rights group Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BERSIH) in the face of official warnings....

New Jersey Assembly speaker Joseph Roberts, Jr. said Friday that the State Assembly will vote Dec. 13 on a proposal to abolish the death penalty . If the vote passes, New...

The Saudi Arabian government said Saturday that 14 Saudi detainees have returned home following their transfers from Guantanamo Bay . Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz said that...

Police blocked former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from visiting deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry Saturday, despite orders issued Friday lifting her house arrest and allowing her to freely move about...

Nineteen lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have introduced a resolution to support Taiwan's bid for UN membership. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) introduced the bill at a Thursday meeting of the...

Manfo Kwaku Asiedu pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of conspiracy to cause explosions over the failed bomb attacks on London's subway and bus systems on June 21, 2005. Six suspects - Asiedu, Hussein...

Lawyers for Canadian citizen Maher Arar argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Arar should be allowed to revive his lawsuit against senior officials in...