European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Thursday called for a "period of reflection" on the proposed European constitution , now largely in political limbo, in order to "reconnect with our citizens and stimulate a genuine,...

Reporting on their weekend visit to Guantanamo , lawmakers told the US House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that conditions at the facility were better than expected. Committee Chair Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said...

Despite the Australian government's recently-announced changes to the system , Amnesty International said Thursday in a new report that Australia's asylum policy is still "tragically flawed" . AI says the controversial...

Robert Weiner, a former public affairs aide in the Clinton White House and now head of a Washington, DC media relations firm , said in an op-ed in Thursday's Boston Globe that the upcoming trial of Saddam...

Just days after filing a federal antitrust lawsuit against rival Intel, Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) has filed two similar suits against Intel in Japan. The company announced Thursday that its Japanese arm,...

Wire services are reporting that former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers , convicted of fraud in March for his part in an $11 billion accounting scandal, will forfeit as much as $45 million worth of personal...

TIME magazine said in a statement Thursday that it will turn over notes by reporter Matthew Cooper to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name despite Cooper's own willingness to go to jail rather than...

Ali Mohammed Osman Yassin, Sudan's justice minister, has rejected calls for the extradition of 10 suspects to face charges for war crimes in Darfur before the the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Yassin said the men...

The US Justice Department has officially ended its probe into Royal Dutch/Shell Group , announcing on Wednesday that it will not prosecute the company for overstating gas and oil reserves . Shell had previously settled civil investigations...

Despite being voted down in the Senate , the Spanish parliament on Thursday passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage and allowing same-sex couples to adopt and inherit each other's property. Read the text of the...