Russian investigators have raided the offices of various companies affiliated with the former oil giant Yukos in connection with a $7 billion money-laundering investigation, prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors have previously said they were pursuing...

A group of 13 former and current employees filed a $500 million lawsuit Wednesday against the US Department of Commerce alleging that the agency discriminated in its hiring and promoting of employees. The suit, filed by 11...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments on whether the federal government can halt doctors from assisting patients in taking their own lives under an Oregon statute allowing the practice. The justices...

A third grand jury previously unrevealed by prosecutors refused to indict former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay last week, according to a written statement released late Tuesday by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle...

Victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings are calling for the Indonesian government to immediately execute those in prison for carrying out the attacks. After new coordinated bombings in two tourist areas last...

Two of the six radical Islamic militants interrogated in Bangladesh Wednesday in connection to their role in the simultaneous bombings of three courthouses Monday indicated association with Jamaatul Mujahideen and confessed to targeting the legal system in...

Sunni Arab leaders threatened Wednesday to boycott the upcoming referendum on Iraq's draft constitution if US troops do not stop offensive operations in western Iraq. US forces Tuesday launched their second offensive in a week [AP...

Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said Wednesday that he plans to change controversial legislation that would grant amnesty to many involved in the 2000 racially-motivated coup . The Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity bill has...

A US District Court judge has struck down a part of California's financial privacy law that places restrictions on banks' ability to sell their customers' private information to their associates. The provision was struck down because a federal law,...

The Takamatsu High Court in Japan Wednesday upheld a lower court decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over his visits to the Yasukuni shrine . The shrine was founded in 1869...