A UN General Assembly panel late Friday approved by consensus a draft disability rights treaty, clearing the way for its formal adoption by the Assembly at its 61st annual session beginning in September prior to being open...

At the end of the first US trial of a foreign head of government since that of Panama's Manuel Noriega, a US federal judge in San Francisco Friday sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ...

A federal judge on Friday issued an injunction blocking a planned strike by flight attendants for Northwest Airlines . Urged to intervene by both the airline and the US Department of Justice (DOJ), US District Judge Victor Marrero...

Nepal's Interim Constitution Drafting Committee (ICDC) on Friday presented a draft constitution to government officials and Maoist rebel representatives participating in the negotiations. The interim draft encompassing 172 articles is designed to replace the current...

US District Judge James Brady has issued a preliminary injunction preventing Louisiana state officials from enforcing a recently enacted statute banning the sale of violent video games to minors. Brady ruled that the plaintiffs in...

Law enforcement agencies in Kyrgyzstan have been detaining asylum seekers from neighboring Uzbekistan in recent weeks as part of Kyrgyz counterterrorism sweeps, and several asylum seekers have disappeared and have possibly been forcibly returned to Uzbekistan,...

A Chinese court of Friday sentenced New York Times researcher Zhao Yan to three years in prison for fraud charges, but also dismissed more serious charges of illegally leaking state secrets. Zhao was convicted of taking...

The US State Department has opened an investigation into whether Israel used cluster munitions in Lebanon during the most recent Middle East conflict in violation of several...

Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay expressed disappointment Thursday in recent court decisions preventing the Texas Republican Party from removing his name as a congressional candidate in the November elections, saying that he was "very...

US Army Lt. Col. Mark Keith, the investigating officer with recommending whether 1st Lt. Ehren Watada will face a military trial for refusing to deploy to Iraq, will recommend Friday that Watada face court-martial on...