Irish President Mary McAleese signed an emergency bill into law Friday authorizing jail sentences for persons convicted of for having sex with minors, but allowing them to use mistake of age as a defense. The bill...

Denmark's parliament has adopted two new anti-terror measures conceived in the aftermath of the July 2005 London terrorist attacks . The new laws give the Danish Security Intelligence Service (PET) broader access to the...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday that most of the government documents sought by former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and his defense team were not closely tied to the narrow issue of...

Adnan al-Kazimi, an aide to new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki , said Saturday that the Iraqi government would open its own investigation into the deaths of Iraq civilians in Ishaqi after an official statement [text;...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must examine the risk of a terrorist attack when it considers the...

Judge Robert W. Pratt, chief judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, ruled Friday that a religious prison organization receiving government funds violated the US Constitution because it was used to rehabilitate prison...

Cameron Frazier v. Cynthia Alexandre, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, May 31, 2006 [holding that a state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional and...

Dr. Wen Ho Lee , the US nuclear scientist at one time suspected of stealing nuclear secrets for China, Friday settled a civil lawsuit he had brought against the US Department of Justice and...

A federal judge on Friday approved a $153 million settlement between tax firm KPMG and 200 of its former clients in a class action lawsuit based on illegal tax shelters sold by the firm from 1996 to...

Canadian Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday that he will ask MPs to vote this fall on a federal law permitting same-sex marriage . The Liberal Party of former prime minister Paul Martin, which now...