Records released Friday by the Florida Department of Children and Families pursuant to a Thursday court order revealed no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by either her husband Micheal...

Still at Risk: Diplomatic Assurances No Safeguard against Torture, Human Rights Watch , April 15, 2005 [reporting that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to...

In re: Records of the Department of Children and Family Services, Circuit Court for the Pinellas County, Florida, Judge Greer, April 14, 2005 ....

Housekeepers, elevator operators, workmen and others who might come in contact with Roman Catholic cardinals as they meet in secret conclave at the Vatican next week to choose a new pope took an oath of secrecy and signed written secrecy...

Egyptian judges have threatened not to supervise presidential and parliamentary elections due later this year unless the government amends laws which limit judicial power and prevent the convening of free and fair elections. The judges say that...

In an urgent appeal at a press conference in Santiago Friday, a coalition of leading human rights groups urged the Chilean Supreme Court to reconsider its January 25 decision to shut down unconcluded investigations of human rights violations [JURIST...

French commentators suggested Friday that a televised appeal by French President Jacques Chirac in a "town hall"-style meeting with young people broadcast Thursday evening and seen by over 9,000,000 viewers ...

New US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings castigated senior departmental officials Friday over the controversial hiring of conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to plug the No Child Left Behind Act . Williams was investigated by...

Sheik Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, a prominent Sunni cleric of the Association of Muslim Scholars , urged President Jalal Talabani on Friday to fulfill an earlier promise to pardon some 10,500 insurgents imprisoned by US forces. His...

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, defense contractor Raytheon Company has announced that it's placed chief financial officer Edward S. Pliner and another employee on administrative leave and also offered to settle a SEC inquiry into...