Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Tuesday that he would push the United Nations to adopt a universal ban on the death penalty after this weekend's execution of Saddam...

Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock said Tuesday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will be among the first of the Guantanamo detainees to be brought to trial before new US military commissions. In...

A government official in Nepal said Tuesday that the country's interim constitution will be promulgated by the middle of January when the requisite arms management process outlined in the Nepalese peace...

The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki initiated an investigation Tuesday into the taping and distribution of a graphic camera phone video showing the actual Saturday execution of ousted Iraqi president Saddam...

Sunnis demonstrated in the streets of Iraq Monday in continuing opposition to the Saturday execution of Saddam Hussein , which was captured on camera phone video taken at the scene. Most...

Rizgar Mohammed Amin , the Iraqi Kurdish judge who presided over the Saddam Hussein Dujail trial before resigning in early 2006 over criticisms of his handling of the case, has said that...

Federal courts are closed Tuesday under a proclamation issued last week appointing Tuesday as a National Day of Mourning for former US President Gerald R. Ford , who died last week at...

Pope Benedict XVI stressed the importance of respecting human rights as the foundation for peace in a New Year's homily at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome Monday. In his message for World Peace Day, marked by...

US Chief Justice John Roberts called failure to raise the pay of federal judges a "constitutional crisis" in his 2006 year-end report on the federal judiciary , released Monday. Making that the...

Germany took over the six-month rotating European Union presidency with the New Year on Monday, promising to put the stymied European constitution back on the regional bloc's agenda. In a statement posted...