Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2006, Federal Bureau of Investigation, June 4, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported...

Violent crime in the US increased 1.3 percent last year, according to the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2006 , released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Monday. Property crime decreased 2.9 percent,...

The military judge presiding over military commission proceedings against Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr Monday dismissed all charges against Khadr, citing a lack of jurisdiction. A Guantanamo...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday returned a government complaint against lawyers who allegedly made "humiliating" statements against the military and judiciary at a seminar that was attended by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry [official website;...

A Bangladeshi court Sunday ordered the continued detention of Abdul Jalil, the secretary general of the Bangladesh political party Awami League , on charges of corruption and misuse of power despite Jalil's lawyers' request that he be released...

The treason trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and ten other opposition members resumed Monday, after a year-long delay following the voluntary withdrawal of two judges. Besigye, who has been charged ...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three argued cases Monday, including Uttecht v. Brown where the Court held that federal courts reviewing claims that a juror was improperly...

Thousands of survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre filed a class action lawsuit against the United Nations and the Netherlands Monday, alleging that both are liable for their failure to protect civilians, many of...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of judicial proceedings against him Monday at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , saying in a letter to the court that his...

British newspapers reported Sunday that incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown intends to reintroduce tough terrorism measures previously rejected by parliament when he takes office later this month on the departure of current British PM Tony...