AP is reporting that Ohio Governor Bob Taft will plead no contest to charges that he improperly failed to report golf outings and other gifts.1:22 PM ET - Taft was fined $4,000 but will not...

There has been an almost 80 percent decrease in the number of federal tort trials from 1985 to 2003, the US Department of Justice said in a report released Wednesday. According to Federal Tort...

Police in Bangladesh have detained almost 50 people for questioning after a series of over 100 bombs exploded across the country on Wednesday, killing two and injuring over 100. The near-simultaneous bombings took place outside government buildings...

Ali Alatas, former Indonesian foreign minister, went to Myanmar Thursday as a special envoy of the UN to help push for the release of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . Alatas was appointed to...

The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after a summer recess, with Milosevic calling ethnic Albanian witnesses from Kosovo...

The Iraqi Islamic Party , Iraq's largest Sunni political group, on Wednesday heavily criticized the committee drafting a new Iraq constitution and said that the same major disputes blocking a draft last week remain to...

Israeli security soldiers on Thursday entered the religious settlement of Kfar Darom and surrounded a synagogue filled with hundreds of young pullout opponents as the soldiers removed screaming residents from nearby homes and a religious school. One soldier refused...

A US military jury on Wednesday convicted Pfc. Willie Brand of assault, maltreatment, false official swearing and maiming. Brand faces up to 16 years in military prison for beating one of two Afghan detainees who later died at Bagram...

US Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer delayed the civil class action fraud case against former Qwest Communications chief executive Joe Nacchio and other former phone company executives until September 30 to eliminate possible interference with a parallel federal...

The UN has formally accused Carina Perelli, head of the UN's Electoral Assistance Division , with harassing her staff. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric did not offer specifics, but it is believed that the accusations stem from a four-month...