The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has made an offer to settle nearly 200 pending clergy sex abuse lawsuits, lawyers representing plaintiffs in the litigation said Friday. The settlement offer would require that all...

In a letter to US President George W. Bush, the chief Iraqi defense counsel for Saddam Hussein has urged Hussein's immediate release in order to restore peace in Iraq, and has condemned the ousted president's current...

Prosecutors are once again investigating Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , this time on charges that he bribed his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, according to a report Thursday in...

Prosecutors in Turkey have dropped one of the two state slander charges against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk , eliminating the allegation that he insulted Turkey's armed forces. Pamuk, whose work often examines the clashes between...

A Croatian court in Zagreb Thursday sentenced former "Scorpions" paramilitary member Slobodan Davidovic to 15 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the summer 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Davidovic and five other paramilitary members were arrested...

Officials in the Austrian city of Graz have removed all references to Arnold Schwarzenegger from the city's website in the wake of controversy over the California Governor's decision earlier this month to deny clemency to...

Over 10,000 Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad Tuesday to protest alleged fraud in the December 15 parliamentary elections in Iraq . Complaints of fraud surfaced almost immediately after the polls closed , with the majority...

A Kuwaiti court Tuesday sentenced six Islamist militants to death for their involvement in a January 2005 clash with police that left several people dead. All the men were members of the Peninsula Lions Brigades, a fundamentalist group linked...

A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced former minister of land and natural resources Tian Fengshan to life in prison after finding him guilty of accepting over $500,000 in bribes during his time in office. The Beijing Number Two Intermediate...

The British government Tuesday filed an anticipated appeal challenging a recent High Court decision that Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks is entitled to British citizenship. Hick's lawyers want citizenship for...