Chaplains in the US Air Force will no longer subscribe to a code of ethics that endorses the evangelizing of service members not affiliated with any religion, Air Force officials have announced. The move comes in the...

A federal judge has ruled that State Street Bank and Trust Company will not be held responsible for major losses in a United Airlines (UAL) employee stock-ownership plan. Over 70,000 United employees and retirees filed...

Lawyers for Platon Lebedev, business partner of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , said Thursday that they have asked the Russian General Prosecutor's Office for information on the whereabouts of their client and have also requested...

Serbian authorities issued a new arrest warrant for the wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Thursday. Mirjana Markovic , who fled Russia in 2003 in the face of an international warrant, failed...

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for judges to require cash-only bonds pending trial. In a 4-3 ruling Wednesday, the court said that a 1993 decision that said that Ohio defendants...

The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has said that it will allow former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to participate in politics during his provisional release pending his war crimes trial....

A spokesman for the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) said Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein is still set to begin on October 19, despite concerns that the trial may be postponed. Investigatory judge...

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Australia's proposed anti-terror legislation Thursday as a violation of international law and called the proposal "a shocking departure from Australia's proud tradition of protecting individuals...

The Swedish government plans to introduce a new law that would require anyone held on reasonable suspicion of a crime to provide a DNA sample to be kept in a national registry. Swedish Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom ...

The government of The Netherlands is considering a ban on the burka , the Muslim article of clothing for women that leaves only the eyes visible. Dutch Integration Minister Rita Verdonk , known domestically as...