Loi n° 2006-961 du 1er août 2006 relative au droit d'auteur et aux droits voisins dans la société de l'information, August 3, 2006 [among other things, allowing French regulators to force Apple Computer to make its iPod player compatible with...

Texas Republicans cannot remove former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from the November congressional ballot, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday. Tina Benkiser,...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday accepted the nomination of political rival Viktor Yanukovych to serve as the country's prime minister, ending weeks of speculation that Yushchenko's rejection of the nomination...

North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley Thursday signed into law a bill establishing an innocence inquiry commission which will review appeals by inmates who claim they have been wrongly convicted. The North Carolina Innocence...

US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that indiscriminate Israeli air and artillery strikes on Lebanese civilians cannot be systematically dismissed as accidents and called several of Israel's attacks "war crimes" in a...

German Chancellor Angel Merkel called the conditions in the remote Siberia prison holding former Yukos Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky "unacceptable" in a letter published Thursday, and said...

The new French iTunes copyright legislation went into effect Thursday, allowing French regulators to force Apple Computer to make its iPod player compatible with songs downloaded from other Internet music stores, and downloads...

Nepal's High Level Probe Commission Thursday questioned army chief Pyar Jung Thapa as part of the panel's continuing investigation of alleged human rights abuses during pro-democracy protests in April which brought an end to the 14-month...

Four US Army soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of Iraqi detainees refused to testify during their Article 32 hearing Thursday, following the lead of several superior officers who invoked their right not to...

A Malawian court Wednesday sentenced the former principal secretary in the country's Ministry of Education to two years in jail for "aiding and abetting the theft of public funds," making him the most senior civil servant to...