The prosecution in the Jose Padilla terrorism conspiracy case rested Friday after nine weeks of presenting witness testimony and wiretap evidence to jurors. The final witness for the prosecution, an FBI linguist, testified that...

The Brazilian federal court has issued an arrest warrant for exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky on charges of money laundering, Russian state news agency Itar-Tass reported...

The total number of aliens detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) annually for immigration violations jumped from approximately 95,000 to 283,000 between 2001 and 2006, according to a report by the Government Accountability...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton questioned President George W. Bush's determination that the 30-month prison sentence for former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was "excessive" and therefore appropriate for commutation...

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) Friday withdrew a motion seeking to hold for questioning an Indian doctor possibly linked with the failed UK car bomb attacks an additional 72 hours without charges. Attorney General Philip...

Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black was convicted of mail fraud and obstruction of justice by a Chicago jury Friday after twelve days of deliberations that included a deadlock . His...

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the US District Court of Southern New York ruled in an opinion published Friday that six wrongful death suits filed by survivors of victims who perished in the September 11 terrorist attacks...

The Liberian government has submitted a draft bill to the country's legislature which, if approved, would authorize the government to seek foreign assistance in "tracking, freezing, and confiscating the funds, properties, and assets" of former Liberian President Charles Taylor...

A Japanese group consisting of 13 right-wing parliamentarians and more than 200 local politicians, nationalist intellectuals and historians called on the US House of Representatives Friday to retract a proposed non-binding resolution asking...

The Mexican federal Third United Criminal Tribunal Thursday absolved former President Luis Echeverria of any criminal responsibility for a 1968 student protester massacre , despite ruling that the student massacre, which took place during...