US Attorney Patrick Meehan filed an indictment Thursday against stockbrokers Anthony Postiglione, Jr. and William Lennon, co-founders of Foutainhead Fund LP, alleging that they defrauded investors out of almost $2 million. Both men...

Dhiren Barot, a British man accused of planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to murder for his role in the Gas Limos Project bombing scheme and...

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Thursday called the "continuing detention without a fair trial" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay "unacceptable in terms of human rights" and "ineffective in...

The UK Court of Appeal Thursday upheld an earlier High Court ruling and denied a bid by the families of three Guantanamo Bay detainees who were UK residents prior to their...

The French lower house of parliament, the National Assembly , approved an internationally-controversial bill Thursday that imposes monetary penalties and jail time on anyone who denies that there was an Armenian genocide early in...

Turkey's most prominent writer, Orhan Pamuk , won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for his work examining the role of Islam in society. Pamuk, a visiting professor at Columbia University, said he...

Five US states permit the use of dogs in prisons to control inmates, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Wednesday. Prison systems in Iowa, Connecticut, South Dakota, Utah and Delaware have policies that...

A prominent South Asian rights group has urged India and Pakistan to abolish the death penalty since it is a "violation of the right to life." South Asians for Human Rights...

Germany intends to set up a "road map" for the ratification of the EU constitution when it assumes the rotating EU presidency on January 1, 2007, German Chancellor Angela Merkel [official website; BBC...

Portions of an article on torture in Chechnya written by murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya before her death were published Thursday by the Novaya Gazeta . The report detailed allegations of torture, including...