PC hardware manufacturer Rambus unlawfully monopolized four markets for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) computer chips and deliberately withheld information about forthcoming patents on the technology from a technology-standards-setting group, according to an opinion released...

Two Hamas officials - the Palestinian Minister for Prisoners' Affairs and a deputy speaker in the Palestinian Legislative Council - who were released from Israeli custody this week told reporters Wednesday that they had been...

The European Union has rejected a call by Polish President Lech Kaczynski to review the EU ban on capital punishment , European Commission spokesman Steffan de Rynck said Wednesday. Kaczynski urged...

Attorneys for a US soldier under investigation for civilian killings in Iraq filed a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit Wednesday against Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) in a Washington DC federal court. The suit alleges...

A federal judge in Georgia has certified a class of more than 10,000 registered sex offenders living in Georgia that would be subject to a new state law barring them from living or working within 1,000 feet...

The UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) on Wednesday cleared the way for the UK to resume deportations of Zimbabwe citizens seeking asylum in Britain, overturning a previous decision that all Zimbabwe citizens face a...

Eagle Global Logistics (EGL), a Houston based company hired by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) to ship military cargo to Iraq, has paid the government $4 million to settle potential claims under the...

Hardline Republicans in Kansas lost control of the Kansas Board of Education during a Tuesday primary vote that brought in more moderate conservatives who support the theory of evolution. The School Board garnered international attention last year...

The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure to seize land on Mount Soledad in San Diego, thus permitting the First Amendment , rather than the California constitution, to control the issue of whether...

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has completed its probe into the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November, and a Pentagon official indicated Wednesday that evidence supports accusations that US Marines from...