Members of the Knesset , Israel's parliament, debated a draft national constitution at a special session Monday but came away sharply split. The Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee presented a 9,000 page report on CD...

Pakistani police Monday fired tear gas to stop approximately 7,000 students from protesting controversial and allegedly-blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have now been re-published in newspapers in Europe and around the world....

Yahoo! Inc. issued a statement Monday supporting freedom of speech in China in anticipation of its Wednesday testimony before the human rights subcommittee of the US House Committee on International Relations. The...

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Monday accepted the resignations of Education Minister George Saitoti and Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi in a televised announcement in connection with their role in two separate corruption scandals...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that Greece failed to implement or comply with EU directives in twenty cases in 2005, the most of all European Union member states, according to statistics...

Members of the UN Stabilization Force in Haiti have fired on Haitians protesting election results , killing at least one protester and injuring four. Demonstrators supporting presidential candidate Rene Preval erected flaming roadblocks on...

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sunday confirmed the country's ongoing commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to walk away from the treaty on Saturday....

In anticipation of the upcoming Commonwealth Games scheduled to start in Melbourne March 15, the Parliament of Australia has rushed through a bill making domestic deployment of the Australian Defence Force...

In its final session before dissolution, the lame-duck Palestinian Parliament Monday gave Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the authority to appoint a constitutional court empowered to cancel any law approved by the...

The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic entered its fifth year Monday as proceedings resumed at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , leaving only 22 working days left before...