Mercury Interactive on Monday settled derivative lawsuits filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California regarding allegations of stock options backdating. The software company, acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP) ...

Montenegrin Prime Minister Zeljko Sturanovic signed the EU-Montenegro Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) Monday, a preliminary step in Montenegro's possible accession to the European Union (EU). The SAA is expected to prepare Montenegro for...

US military judge Col. Peter Brownback on Monday said that military commission proceedings against Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr would resume November 8. Brownback's ruling comes despite Khadr's appeal challenging the earlier decision...

The court-martial of former US military police commander Lt Col William H Steele began in Baghdad Monday on charges of aiding the enemy by providing a cellular phone to detainees, giving special privileges,...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suit on Monday against Nortel for fraudulent accounting practices and also reached settlement with the telecommunications giant. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court...

Milberg Weiss partner and co-founder Melvyn Weiss pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Weiss was indicted last month and said at that...

Carla Del Ponte , the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , on Monday chided Serbian authorities for failing to bring to justice four accused war criminals who are believed...

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will not be arrested upon her return to Pakistan, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Monday. Bhutto has lived in self-exile in London and Dubai since she left the country...

UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari Monday criticized Myanmar's detention of four more pro-democracy activists , urging the military government to release political prisoners and end the detention of peaceful democracy activists....

Four prominent Sri Lankan human rights activists have resigned from a government advisory panel to protest Sri Lanka's worsening human rights situation, including ongoing extradjudicial killings, activist and lawyer Nimalka Fernando said Monday. The four submitted their...