Peruvian prosecutors have filed informal charges against Ollanta Humala , the opposition leader who narrowly lost the recent presidential election to Alan Garcia, for murder, torture and kidnapping stemming from his position as an...

A US Marine has been charged with three counts of assault and one count of making a false statement in connection with an incident occurring on April 10 near the village of Hamdania in Iraq, according to a Marine...

Indonesian authorities on Thursday shortened prison sentences for 10 people convicted in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed over 200 people. Nine prisoners with sentences between five and 16 years had their sentences cut...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard agreed Wednesday to hold a conscience vote on a stem cell research bill allowing therapeutic cloning if a private bill is offered to parliament. A conscience vote is a free...

Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Wednesday rejected a number of complaints concerning congressional races in the July 2 Mexican general election that paralleled the presidential poll currently subject to a...

A federal jury in Raleigh, North Carolina reached a partial verdict Wednesday in the trial of David Passaro , a CIA contractor accused of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan , but...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday praised new British anti-terrorism laws that helped thwart a terror plot to explode jetliners traveling over the Atlantic Ocean, saying that the provision that...

A British judge Wednesday night gave Scotland Yard five to seven more days to question and hold without charge 23 men currently in custody in connection with an alleged plot to bomb US planes leaving the UK for...

Kay Staley v. Harris County, Texas, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, August 15, 2006 [ruling that a Bible included in a monument in front of a Harris County, Texas, civil courthouse promotes Christianity and thereby violates...

A US federal appeals court has ruled that a non-citizen cannot sue a US corporation for discrimination that allegedly occurred while he was working outside the US. The decision by the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals...