Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of all seven charges of tax evasion, fraud and embezzlementafter the Moscow court on Tuesday finished reading the verdict it began announcing on Monday . The court will...

A United Nations-appointed committee investigating the UN oil-for-food program has won the right to inspect internal documents a former investigator turned over to the US Congress. Robert Parton resigned last month from the Independent Inquiry Committee [official...

The chief federal prosecutor in a terrorism case marred by prosecutorial misconduct resigned on Monday. Richard Convertino won convictions against four terrorism suspects in Detroit in 2003, but the government later had them tossed out ...

At the United Nations, Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan introduced a draft resolution Monday to expand the UN Security Council from 15 to 25 countries and give themselves permanent seats. Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed changes to the...

Report on oil allocations granted to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Comittee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, May 16, 2005 [reporting that Saddam Hussein's government provided Russian officials with millions of dollars in oil rights under the...

AP is reporting that a military jury empaneled for the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse trial of Spc. Sabrina Harman has convicted her on six of seven counts. AP has more on Monday's closing defense arguments in...

Granholm, et al. v. Heald, et al., Supreme Court of the United States, May 16, 2005 . Excerpt from the majority opinion by Justice...

AP is reporting that Newsweek magazine has officially retracted its May 9 story that US personnel at Guantanamo had desecrated the Koran. Editors at the magazine began publicly backtracking from the story Sunday night after a source...

Database giant Oracle has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a dispute over claims that the company fraudulently billed the US government for software training from 1997 through 2003. Former Oracle employee Robert J. Makheja, who...

The former Nigerian education minister, former senate leader, and five other Nigerian lawmakers went on trial for corruption Monday in the capital city of Abuja. Ex-Education Minister Fabian Osuji is accused of paying a $400,000 bribe to parliament in...