The Supreme Court of Japan ruled Tuesday that schools can order teachers to play the country's national anthem . In 1999, a Japanese music teacher refused to play the anthem at a...

Malawi Vice President Cassim Chilumpha pleaded not guilty to treason and conspiring to murder the president as his trial on the charges began Monday. In May 2006, Chilumpha was placed under house arrest three weeks...

The Nepalese government has created a panel to assemble a list of assets held by King Gyanendra and seize property he obtained after ascending to the throne, a cabinet spokesman said Monday. Dilendra...

A California state appeals court ruled Monday that the state's stem cell research program "suffers from no constitutional or other legal infirmity," leading the way for approximately $3 billion in grant money to be...

A federal judge Monday refused to apply a 1851 maritime law that would have limited the possible damages for victims of the 2003 Staten Island ferry crash to $14.4 million. The city of New...

Othman and Secretary of State for the Home Department, Special Immigration Appeals Commission, February 26, 2007 ....

The governors of five western US states signed an agreement Monday to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases , a cause of global warming . During the winter meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA)...

Two high-ranking Kurdish politicians were each sentenced to a year and a half in prison Monday by a Turkish court for distributing Kurdish-language party materials praising imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan . Ahmet Turk and Aysel Tugluk,...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Scott v. Harris , 05-1631 , where the court must decide whether a police officer violated a fleeing...

Bosnian BiH presidency member Haris Silajdzic on Monday called for an amendment to the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) constitution that would end the country's division into ethnic mini-states and create a unified nation. Silajdzic's proposal was...