Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced Friday that he plans to investigate the water contamination crisis in the city of Flint. The investigation is set to begin immediately as Flint residents are currently being forced to...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein expressed his concerns on Friday regarding rising conflicts Burundi that have given rise to gang rapes, torture, ethnic repression, mass graves, and secret detentions and disappearances. Zeid...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday against the New Orleans Public Defenders Office and the Louisiana Public Defender Board due to...

A judge for the Superior Court of California in the County of San Francisco ruled Thursday that requiring a Catholic hospital to perform a tubal ligation sterilization would violate its religious freedom. The plaintiff, Rebecca Chamorro,...

The trial of former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra began in the Supreme Court of Thailand on Friday, as she appeared in court to face corruption charges involving mismanagement of a rice-subsidy program. The charges against Shinawatra include...

Brazil's Federal Police have accused seven people and three companies of environmental crimes in its probe into the major Fundão dam collapse that occurred on November 5. The collapse, which has been termed the worst environmental disaster in the nation's...

A court in Lisbon, Portugal, ruled on Friday that a former CIA operative shall be extradited to Italy to serve a seven-year sentence for her involvement in the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that the use of starvation as a weapon in Syria is a war crime . According to Ban, UN teams have witnessed horrifying scenes of "the elderly and children, men and women,...

Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a Facebook feature is unlawful. Confirming two lower court decisions, the court ruled that Facebook's "friend finder" feature constitutes advertising harassment. The...

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against anti-abortion activists. The organization claims criminal misconduct by the activists who produced undercover videos [BBC...