A Tokyo court has ruled that a contest by Japanese soldiers in 1937 to behead Chinese soldiers did occur, and was not fabricated by the media, as claimed by families of the Japanese soldiers concerned. Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun...

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin has signed legislation banning verbal panhandling in popular downtown tourist destinations, including the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site . The ordinance bans "commercial solicitation" and all verbal...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo used her majority in Congress Tuesday to frustrate opposition attempts to impeach her. The opposition is attempting to consolidate three separate impeachment complaints to one strong case, while the majority...

Humam Hammoudi, head of Iraq's constitutional drafting committee , told reporters Tuesday that it was unlikely that the three additional days provided by the National Assembly to settle differences over the charter would be sufficient...

Suicide and Homicide in State Prison and Local Jails, US Department of Justice, August 22, 2005 . Excerpt:Over the past two...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the Financial Times is reporting that the US Department of Justice is nearing a settlement with Big Four accounting firm KPMG . KPMG has been under investigation for its creation and...

The US military announced Monday that three more detainees from Iran, Yemen and Tajikistan respectively have been released from the US terror suspect detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and sent home to their own countries. US...

JURIST is looking for talented, public-service oriented law students from law schools in the US and abroad to join our team of real-time legal news editors this fall.From Los Angeles to London, from Chicago to Cairo - if you're...

Leading Monday's states brief, the California Supreme Court today extended child support laws and custody rights to estranged gay and lesbian couples who used reproductive science to conceive by ruling that same-sex couples who raise children are the lawful...

Glenn Allen Powell, a former employee of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) , has pleaded guilty to charges that he accepted bribes and defrauded the US government when awarding a contract...