Jury selection is expected to begin Wednesday in the court-martial of US Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Espionage Act with leaking secret national...

United States v. Matthew M. Diaz, General Court-Martial before the Navy and Marine Corps Trial Judiciary - Central Judicial Circuit ....

Zimbabwean police Tuesday broke up a rally of about 50 lawyers who had gathered to protest the the arrest and imprisonment of two human rights lawyers, assaulting some attendees with rubber batons, according to a witness. Alec Muchadehama and...

The Parliament of Pakistan Tuesday rejected a proposal to soften the country's strict blasphemy laws that impose death or life imprisonment for insults to the Prophet Mohammed. Minno Bhandara, a Christian lawmaker in the National Assembly,...

The Pakistan Supreme Court Tuesday created a panel of judges to hear a legal challenge by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to the proceedings against him for alleged misconduct. Pakistan's...

A New York appeals court Tuesday dismissed four of six claims against former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso , finding they were not within the New York attorney general's authority to bring....

A US Marine legal adviser charged with failure to properly report and investigate the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha appeared before a military panel Tuesday that will decide whether the charges should...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Monday sent a letter to a former federal prosecutor, asking him to speak with investigators looking into the recent US Attorney firing scandal and a possible link to voter...

A committee struck to reform Iraq's constitution said Tuesday it planned to have its recommendations ready to go before the Iraqi parliament next week. The 31-member committee, which includes Shiites, Sunni Arabs and ethnic Kurds, must...

Human rights activist Umida Niyazova received a suspended sentence on Tuesday after reading a confession and expressing regret for "the crimes committed unintentionally." The Uzbek appeals court reduced the seven-year sentence she received last week after...