Malcolm W. Nance, a former Navy interrogation instructor and counterterrorism intelligence specialist, said Thursday that the practice of waterboarding "is torture and should be banned," during a hearing held by the Subcommittee on the Constitution,...

The man believed to be the commander of the Irish Republican Army was arrested Wednesday night and charged Thursday with nine counts of tax evasion, totaling $3.7 million. Thomas "Slab" Murphy is believed to be...

The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) Thursday published a report on its investigation into the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in a London Tube station...

Zimbabwean Attorney General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele has been charged with corrupt conduct for allegedly contacting a fugitive, Zimbabwean police said Thursday. Gula-Ndebele is charged with violating the Criminal Law (Codification Reform) Act for doing "anything contrary to or inconsistent with...

The man who shot and paralyzed former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972 will be released from a Maryland prison Friday, according to an alert from an automated victim-notification system Thursday. Prison officials have refused to publicly...

The Russian Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 , and therefore not eligible for legal rehabilitation. The decision upholds a...

Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner dedicated a new monument to victims of the 1976-83 Dirty War in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. The monument, on which the names of thousands of victims are engraved, sits beside...

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that warrants for documents seized from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma were lawfully obtained, and could be used against him in any potential corruption trial....

Pakistani prosecutors on Thursday charged four activists with treason, the first such charges brought under the declaration of emergency rule implemented by President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday. The four activists, who are in detention following...

US military forces in Iraq released 500 detainees at a joint ceremony with the Iraqi government on Thursday at Camp Victory outside Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , speaking to the newly released detainees on Thursday,...