US District Judge Benson Legg Monday suspended a requirement that the Maryland Attorney General submit proposals for using medical professionals to conduct lethal injections until such time as the controversy over the status of the...

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Monday filed an appeal of his four-year prison sentence on charges of inciting sedition, insulting Islam, harming national unity and insulting the president in remarks he posted on his Internet...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in four cases . The two consolidated cases, Washington State Grange v. Washington Republican Party (06-713) and State of Washington v. Washington Republican Party...

Iraq's cabinet approved a draft oil law Monday outlining the development and distribution of Iraqi oil and giving the national government control over oil revenues, according to a senior Iraqi oil official. The proposed law now moves...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton dismissed a juror Monday morning in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after questioning the jury over possible exposure to information about the trial...

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro), International Court of Justice, February 26, 2006 [finding that although the Serbian government was not directly responsible for genocide...

Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann expressed support Sunday for restricting the ability of the Israeli Supreme Court to overturn laws passed by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset , and granting the Knesset...

Jean-Marie Le Pen , leader of France's far-right National Front , kickstarted his fifth bid to become president Sunday with an announcement of plans to reintroduce the death penalty just days after the French parliament [official website,...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rendered its judgment Monday in the long-anticipated case of Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro , finding that although the Serbian government was not directly responsible for...

Canada Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Sunday that Canada may adopt a British special counsel model to preserve the legality of using its security certificates to indefinitely detain foreigners with suspected ties to terrorism....