Cardinal Roberto Tucci, president of Vatican Radio and VR director general Father Pasquale Borgomeo were convicted Monday in an Italian court of polluting the enviroment with high-intensity electromagnetic waves and were handed 10-day suspended jail sentences. A...

Former Walt Disney Company directors Roy Disney and Stanley Gold filed suit against current Disney directors including former Disney CEO Michael Eisner Monday for fraud and breach of duty in connection with the public...

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed a bill Monday which effectively bans smoking in almost all public places in the tobacco-growing state. The Georgia Smokefree Air Act of 2005 would still allow smoking in bars that...

In a statement issued Monday while visiting Europe for World War II commemorations, President Bush once again urged the Senate to put his judicial nominees to an up-or-down vote . Two of the nominees highlighted in...

Mississippi state Attorney General Jim Hood announced Monday that under the terms of a settlement agreement with the state telecommunications giant MCI will hand over $100M cash to cover back taxes owed by its predecessor,...

William Higgins, holder of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , filed suit in New York state court Monday in a bid to block the NYSE merging with electronic stock market Archipelago Holdings. The merger...

Iran's Guardian Council , the legislative watchdog panel composed of six lawyers and six Islamic clerics, Monday rejected a bill that would have allowed abortion during the first four months of pregnancy when the mother's life was endangered...

The Spanish government has announced that it is granting some 700,000 work permits to previously-illegal immigrants who could prove that they had lived and worked in Spain for at least six months. As of Saturday, the final day immigrants...

An Israeli newspaper reported Monday that senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces want to pre-emptively detain a number of Israeli extremists before the planned Gaza Strip pullout and evacuation of settlements this summer. On...

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Sunday that he will postpone the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners, alleging that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is not upholding his promise to pressure Palestinian militants into a ceasefire. Abbas...