A group that advocates the therapeutic use of marijuana is suing the US Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services for their statements that the drug has no medical...

A US federal judge Thursday sentenced former South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park to five years in prison for his conviction on charges of money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and acting...

Authorities in Colombia Thursday arrested a former intelligence chief on charges of murder and conspiracy for allegedly contracting with illegal paramilitary groups to assassinate political opponents, including human rights activists and...

Indonesia has convicted and jailed at least 18 people for advocating a sovereign government for the province of Papua , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Wednesday. The report states:Although political space...

Alleged terrorist Jose Padilla is unfit to stand trial, forensic neuropsychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty testified at a court ordered competency hearing Thursday. Hegarty testified that she determined from 22 hours of interviews and tests...

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog . Nabil, a 22-year-old former law student, had...

Jailed Chinese newspaper ex-editor Yu Huafeng has had his eight-year sentence reduced by one year, according to Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Daily News on Thursday. Huafeng and his colleague Li...

Speaking publicly for the first time, Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr said Thursday that he was tortured by Egyptian officials during his four-year detention in Egypt following an alleged 2003 kidnapping ...

The Enron shareholder derivative lawsuit will be tried in April as previously scheduled, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. US District Judge Melinda Harmon denied a motion filed by defendants Merrill Lynch and Co....

The Philippines will investigate and eventually prosecute those responsible for extra-judicial killings, President Gloria Arroyo said Wednesday, one day after a visiting UN official released a report revealing a high number of such...