The London Metropolitan Police Service announced Thursday that it had foiled an alleged terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several planes traveling from London's Heathrow airport and surrounding airports to various destinations in the United...

A bill that would require asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat to be processed in offshore camps is expected to be approved by the country's House of Representatives Thursday, despite opposition from within...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will implement new rules to improve the performance of federal immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals [DOJ...

UK Labour Party MP Jim Sheridan resigned Wednesday from his government position as Parliamentary Private Secretary of the Defense Team, citing the Blair administration's reluctance to demand an immediate end to the ongoing Middle East conflict [JURIST...

Two hundred Mexican judges on Wednesday began a partial recount of ballots cast in the disputed July 2 presidential elections as supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continued...

New service regulations will allow US Coast Guard members to wear religious head coverings under their uniform head covers, according to Coast Guard officials quoted by AP Wednesday. The new regulations have already taken...

Ethiopia on Tuesday submitted its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the UN Secretary-General. The CTBT bans any nuclear explosion, for testing purposes or otherwise, and was...

An Italian court in Rome will consider whether to try US Army Specialist Mario Lozano this November in connection with the death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari at an Iraqi checkpoint in March 2005,...

Human Rights Watch denounced Iran on Wednesday for threatening to prosecute the Iranian Center for Defense of Human Rights (CDHR) , a human rights group based in Tehran founded by 2003 Nobel peace laureate...

San Diego city officials and management broke federal securities laws by failing to fulfill their fiduciary duties in administering the city's pension fund for police officers, firefighters, and other public officials, according to an independent audit presented...