The British Labour Party government's majority in the UK House of Commons Tuesday rejected greater restrictions on extraditions to the United States and other foreign countries which were proposed by the House of Lords as...

A federal court in Florida ruled Tuesday that a 2005 state law prohibiting exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place violates the free speech and freedom of the press guarantees of the First Amendment. US District...

The New Jersey Supreme Court Tuesday held that mental retardation, like insanity, is a condition to be affirmatively proved by the defense in state death penalty cases. In a 5-2 ruling , the court overturned an...

A proposal to create a special competition court within the European Union Court of First Instance has been publicly endorsed by the Court's head justice, who called it the best "if not the only effective way of...

An Ontario Superior Court judge struck down a central provision of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act Tuesday, saying it violates the constitutional rights of Momin Khawaja . Lawyers for Khawaja, the first person charged under...

A seven-man Rwandan government commission began an official probe Tuesday into accusations that France assisted a Hutu massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide . Rwanda's current Tutsi President Paul Kagame [official...

European Union officials said Tuesday that the EU has reached an agreement with the US to allow EU transnational organized crime-fighting body Eurojust and US prosecutors to share information about investigations on terrorism...

Fifteen Nobel Peace Prize laureates sent a letter to United Nations member states Tuesday urging the UN General Assembly to explore an arms-trade treaty. The letter signers said they believe it "imperative for humanity that the...

The US Department of Education announced Tuesday that it is changing its regulations in order to allow public schools more discretion in providing for the separate education of boys and girls. The changes, to be...

The US government has filed a civil lawsuit against the estate of former Enron chairman Ken Lay , seeking $12.7 million. The Justice Department brought suit Monday "to recover property that constitutes proceeds of the...