Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Iraq's leadership to postpone a decision on future control of the city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, citing concerns for the growth of a Kurdish insurgency...

US Army Sgt. Paul E. Cortez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area last March. Cortez reached...

The French Cour de Cassation appeals court ruled Tuesday that French law precluded a woman from legally adopting her lesbian partner's biological child, who was conceived through artificial insemination. The court held that such adoption...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Claiborne v. United States , a case that could impact sentencing guidelines across the country. Mario Claiborne was...

A Nigerian appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Vice President Atiku Abubakar could not legally be stripped of his office after his break with President Olusegun Obasanjo . The pair were elected in 1999 at the...

Boumediene v. Bush, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, February 20, 2006 [ruling that provisions in the Military Commissions Act stripping foreign nationals held as "enemy combatants" of the right to file habeas corpus petitions challenging their detentions...

Philip Morris USA v. Williams, US Supreme Court, February 20, 2007 . Read the court's opinion per...

The Kansas House of Representatives on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill making English the state's "official" language. The legislation passed 118-2, after it was amended to provide $500,000 to help adult immigrants learn...

A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has found thirteen soldiers guilty of murdering 30 civilians in the Ituri district . The thirteen were sentenced Monday to life in...

The prime ministers of Spain and Italy have pledged to support Germany in reviving the European Constitution . Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi...