A Syrian court Tuesday sentenced human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni to five years in prison and imposed a $2,000-equivalent fine for spreading false information harmful to the state. Al-Bunni has been detained since he and...

A Chinese court has found Yahoo China liable for copyright infringement by linking to websites that illegally offered free downloads of copyrighted music, Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Yahoo China was ordered to pay a fine of...

The North Dakota Legislative Assembly passed a bill Monday prohibiting abortion in the state if the US Supreme Court ever declares that such a move would be constitutional. The measure,...

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson expressed hope Monday that the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 people - including the gunman - dead in the largest...

An Argentine judge ruled Monday that former Argentine President Reynaldo Bignone should stand trial for the kidnapping of children of dissidents killed during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . The children were allegedly given...

Lord Woolf , former Lord Chief Justice of English and Wales, told BBC Radio in an interview broadcast Tuesday that shifting the traditional position of Lord Chancellor into a new Ministry of Justice split...

Some 3000 Pakistani lawyers and anti-government activists demonstrated outside the Supreme Court building in Islamabad Tuesday as suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry arrived for his sixth hearing before Pakistan's Supreme Judicial Council [governing constitutional...

Ecuador's Constitutional Tribunal Monday reinstated some 50 members of the country's Congress dismissed last month by order of Ecuador's electoral tribunal after they were found to have illegally interfered...

The three-drug "cocktail" used to execute death row inmates by lethal injection can fail, causing inmates to suffer a painful death, according to a study published Monday by PLoS Medicine . The study's authors...

An Indonesian court Tuesday acquitted American Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , and Newmont's local subsidiary of criminal pollution charges . Ness and Newmont were accused...