Chilean Judge Jorge Zepeda asked the Santiago Court of Appeals on Monday to strip former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity in a case involving the disappearance of Antonio Llido, a Spanish priest who...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it will not appeal a federal appeals court decision that invalidated an SEC rule regulating hedge funds, opting instead to focus on drafting new...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report Monday that Israel's July 30 air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana may be part of "a pattern of violations of international law,...

Aziz Dweik , the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council , was taken to the hospital Monday for chest pains and breathing problems, which his spokesman claims are due...

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Monday announced an overhaul of the criminal justice system in the city which was severely affected by Hurricane Katrina last year. Prosecutors from a neighboring parish in...

Kathi Cooper et al. v. IBM Personal Pension Plan et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, August 7, 2006 . Read the...

The UN Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights on Monday denounced the "massive denial of human rights" in the ongoing conflict in Lebanon and called on the UN Security Council ...

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia denied a request Monday from Texas Republican Party chair Tina Benkiser seeking to stay a federal appeals court ruling that former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay...

IBM did not discriminate against older workers by adopting a cash-balance pension plan, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday. A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a 2003 district court decision [PDF...

The sole surviving hostage-taker in the 2004 Beslan school siege will be given a new name to prevent retaliation by other inmates at the island penal colony where he will be imprisoned, a law...