The Texas Supreme Court has issued an order allowing lawyers from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama displaced by Hurricane Katrina to practice law in Texas for 30 days. The temporary order will put...

A nine-judge panel in Rwanda charged Belgian Catholic priest Guy Theunis Sunday with inciting and planning the 1994 genocide that killed more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Theunis was the first foreigner to appear before community "gacaca" courts...

Croatia has reopened the trial of eight former military policemen accused of torturing and killing Serb prisoners of war at the Lora military prison in 1992. In 2002, the former policemen were acquitted by a county court in Split,...

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has approved amendments to the country's constitution that allow the government to nationalize white-owned farms and impose travel bans on those deemed anti-government. Critics say the land-law changes will...

Over 100 Massachusetts lawmakers plan to vote against a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in the state and create civil unions, according to an AP poll. The survey conducted between September 6-9 found 104 lawmakers who...

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty told the Canadian Press Sunday that he will not let his province use Shariah (Islamic law) to settle family disputes involving Muslims, such as divorce and child custody issues. A 2004...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its confirmation hearings Monday for John Roberts , nominated by President Bush to serve as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States in the wake...

Lawyers for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will argue that he has been denied due process of law when his trial begins next month on charges stemming from the killings of 143 Shiite residents...

Both Iraqi and UN officials said Sunday that they were unsure when a final draft of the Iraqi constitution would be printed as last-minute negotiations over revisions dragged on. With only 5 weeks remaining...

Guards at a New Orleans jail fled their posts after Hurricane Katrina struck, leaving prisoners behind in appalling conditions, according to Australian tourist interviewed for the Sydney Sunday Telegraph. Ashley Macdonald was arrested for being...