In a clash of opposing viewpoints, a group of strongly conservative Iraqi women Tuesday confronted a sit-in by their liberal counterparts in Baghdad's Firdous Square as the August 15 deadline for the country's constitution nears. The liberal secularists were...

The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday proposed new radiation exposure limits for the Yucca Mountain waste dump project with the goal of ensuring a safe public site for hundreds of thousands of years. The...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales addressed lawyers attending the annual meeting of the American Bar Association Monday, arguing for support of several controversial legal issues on the Bush administration's agenda. Gonzales urged the group to...

A key suspect believed to be connected to the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl was brought before a civil court Tuesday in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. Mohammad Hashim Qadir was held in connection...

The US State Department said Monday that it may deny a visa application by new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad due to allegations that he was part of the 1979 hostage...

Attorneys for Wal-Mart have asked a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to dismiss a class action lawsuit that claims as many as 1.6 million female employees were discriminated against. A...

After Iran announced an end to negotiations and a resumption of its nuclear program on Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency held an emergency meeting Tuesday in Vienna to discuss the...

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Tuesday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan to deport Islamic extremists is likely to result in violations of international human rights law. While such laws prohibit...

Jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has ended his eight-week hunger strike in response to concerns of family and friends for his deteriorating health, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday. Ganji has been imprisoned since...

A former UN official pleaded guilty Monday to US charges that he accepted close to $1 million in bribes from UN contractors in the Oil-for-Food scandal . Alexander Yakovlev, a procurement officer...