US Bankruptcy Judge Adlai Hardin Tuesday approved a request by Delta Airlines to end its pension plan for pilots. Delta reached a settlement with a group of retired pilots on Monday, agreeing...

A lawsuit by former Australian Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib against the Australian government could become the first court challenge to new security secrecy laws passed in 2004 . Australian prosecutors say that some of the evidence used...

Two owners of a Louisiana nursing home who were charged last year with negligent homicide for the deaths of 34 people in flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina have sued a number of...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama has confirmed that the Rwandan Parliament would be presented a bill in December aimed at abolishing capital punishment in the African nation. The legislation, immensely unpopular with the...

An Indonesian court on Tuesday handed down the first sentence in connection to the 2005 Bali bombings of three restaurants, which killed two dozen people and injured 200 others. Abdul Aziz, convicted of harboring Noordin Mohammed Top...

Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Tuesday certified Felipe Calderon as the winner of Mexico's disputed July 2 presidential election . Calderon's opponent, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez...

The Iraqi National Assembly voted on Tuesday to renew the country's state of emergency, in place since November 2004 , for an additional 30 days. The emergency measures are applicable throughout the country, except for the...

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament approved a report Monday taking Turkey to task for slow progress on a variety of legal and other reforms agreed to by Ankara as part of its...

Federal prosecutors have asked that a judge sentence civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to 30 years in prison, saying that Stewart's "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession ... deserves to be severely punished." Stewart was convicted [JURIST...

UK Home Secretary John Reid has promised to go ahead with Tuesday's planned deportations of 32 Iraqis who sought asylum in the UK, saying that only a court injunction will prevent the plane carrying the Iraqis from...