A Chilean appeals court denied a motion to dismiss tax charges against the wife and son of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Friday. Chilean prosecutors filed charges against Pinochet's relatives last week,...

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has admitted that Nigerian police forces have engaged in killings of suspects and innocent civilians, as well as torture and other civil rights violations. Obasanjo's admission comes only weeks after Nigerian officials denied...

A Texas jury on Friday awarded a $253.4 million verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of a man who suffered cardiac arrest after using the prescription osteoarthritis drug Vioxx . Merck ,...

John Allen Muhammad , who has been convicted of murder in Virginia for one of the ten Washington DC area sniper killings, was moved Friday from Virginia's death row to Maryland in order to face trial...

A survey conducted by Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute found that 72% of 1,601 New York residents polled supported the random bag searches being conducted on city subways and buses following the terrorist attacks in London...

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) , the political wing of the outlawed Mujahideen-e-Khalq guerrilla movement , said Friday that Iran is developing a plan to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. While the European Union...

Three days after gang related riots in seven Guatemalan prisons killed 35 inmates, three more inmate gang members were injured in riots Thursday. A later search of the prison uncovered 3 grenades, 6 guns and many homemade...

Four tobacco companies have filed suit against the state of Kentucky for violating the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) made between 46 states and more than 40 tobacco companies, regulating payments to states and restrictions on tobacco...

Grundfos , a Danish company that produces industrial pumps, admitted Friday that two employees paid kickbacks to authorities in Saddam Hussein's government under the UN oil-for-food program . An internal Grundfos investigation uncovered the bribes, which...

The lawyer for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz announced Thursday that he expects his client to be released from US custody shortly without being put on trial. Badia Aref told Reuters that due to legal...