A judge for the Superior Court of California in the County of San Francisco ruled Thursday that requiring a Catholic hospital to perform a tubal ligation sterilization would violate its religious freedom. The plaintiff, Rebecca Chamorro,...

The trial of former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra began in the Supreme Court of Thailand on Friday, as she appeared in court to face corruption charges involving mismanagement of a rice-subsidy program. The charges against Shinawatra include...

Brazil's Federal Police have accused seven people and three companies of environmental crimes in its probe into the major Fundão dam collapse that occurred on November 5. The collapse, which has been termed the worst environmental disaster in the nation's...

A court in Lisbon, Portugal, ruled on Friday that a former CIA operative shall be extradited to Italy to serve a seven-year sentence for her involvement in the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that the use of starvation as a weapon in Syria is a war crime . According to Ban, UN teams have witnessed horrifying scenes of "the elderly and children, men and women,...

Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a Facebook feature is unlawful. Confirming two lower court decisions, the court ruled that Facebook's "friend finder" feature constitutes advertising harassment. The...

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against anti-abortion activists. The organization claims criminal misconduct by the activists who produced undercover videos [BBC...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday certified class action status in a lawsuit alleging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) specifically targeted conservative tea party groups. Judge Susan Dlott...

Several human rights and civil society groups called on the international community Thursday to address the killing 140 protesters in Ethiopia's Oromia region. Amnesty International (AI) said that the protests over government plans...

The Ontario Superior Court on Thursday ruled that police orders requiring telecommunications companies to hand over cellphone user data breached the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms . The orders, labeled "tower dumps," demanded [Globe and...