Kyrgyzstan election officials certified parliamentary election results Tuesday, despite ongoing fierce protests and international criticism. The election commission published results for 69 of 75 parliamentary seats up for election in February, with President Askar Akayev's supporters overwhelmingly beating opposition...

Egyptian prosecutors on Tuesday charged presidential candidate Ayman Nour with forging signatures to obtain recognition for his party, Al-Ghad. The charges come several months after Nour was arrested, a move that drew intense international criticism. Nour, an ardent supporter...

Britain's Constitutional Affairs Secretary and Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer Monday unveiled a British government plan to strip the legal profession of its right to regulate itself, saying that the current system for handling complaints lacks transparency and...

Schiavo v. Schiavo, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Judge James Whittemore, March 22, 2005 [refusing to issue a temporary injunction that would allow the re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube on the grounds that her...

Reaction to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's In Larger Freedom report outlining his plans to reform the UN has been mixed. Annan is calling for an expanded Security Council membership, the establishment of a new Human...

CBS WTSP-TV 10 in Tampa is reporting that US District Judge James Whittemore has refused to order the re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, saying that the brain-damaged Florida woman's parents had not established a "substantial likelihood of success"...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, March 22.The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first...

Schiavo v. Schiavo, complaint by Terri Schiavo's parents to the US District Court, Middle District of Florida, seeking a temporary restraining order allowing re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube pending federal review of her case, March 21, 2005. Read the...

Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population, Pew Hispanic Center, Jeffrey S. Passel, March 21, 2005 [documenting recent massive growth of the illegal immigrant population in the United States - a 23 percent increase was reported in...

French lawmakers are expected on Tuesday to strike the final blow to the nation's maligned 35-hour work week , ending the national experiment lauded by workers but criticized as a drain on the country's economy. With national unemployment...