The Constitutional Court of Thailand agreed Monday to consider a petition to void the country's April 2 general election after Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej called on the court last week to take a...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour headed to Darfur Monday as she continued a five-day visit to Sudan to press the government to end the violence and address rights...

Former US Senator John Danforth has called a Republican-sponsored constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage "silly," saying the Republican party's stance calls for them to interpret the constitution narrowly rather than expansively. Speaking...

Jury selection will begin Monday in the second trial of John Allen Muhammad , who was convicted of one sniper shooting in Virginia but now faces six murder charges for killings in Maryland that occurred during...

The jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui are set to resume deliberations Monday after spending a weekend at home. The Alexandria, Virginia, jury stopped work Friday in the wake of an admonishment from Judge...

A European Union-imposed deadline for Serbia to turn over war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic passed Sunday with no arrest of the former general. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said...

JURIST , the non-commercial legal news and research service powered by law students led by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law , is running neck and neck with US legal television network...

The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved several amendments to the route of the Israeli security fence around Jerusalem and the West Bank and Israeli Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert urged that the barrier be completed as...

US journalist Edward Caraballo, one of three US citizens jailed in 2004 on charges of running a private jail and torturing eight Afghan men, was released Sunday from Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison by presidential decree. Caraballo, former US...

The Egyptian parliament on Sunday extended the country's emergency laws for two more years in order to allow more time for the government to draft anti-terrorism legislation. The emergency laws, which would have expired in June, were...