The Sri Lanka cabinet enacted strict new anti-terror laws Wednesday that ban individuals from aiding anyone "engaged in terrorism" and prohibit the wearing of uniforms "relating to terrorism." The new laws also give police and security forces...

Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Roy Belfast Jr. and Charles Taylor Jr., son of former Liberia president Charles Taylor, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in the...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday mandated that Dutch officials force-feed Serb nationalist and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj in the event that the hunger strike [JURIST...

Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) has settled fraud allegations under the False Claims Act , the US Justice Department said Wednesday, and has agreed to pay the US $8 million for allegedly...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour told the UN Human Rights Council Wednesday in the aftermath of a controversial trip to the Middle East that "the human rights situation in...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. , 04-1350, a case involving a fight over a patent on adjustable...

The National Education Association (NEA) joined three school districts on Tuesday in appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged the funding of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) [PDF text; executive summary; US...

The tax fraud trial of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills was adjourned Tuesday after the defense applied to have one of the judges taken off the...

A judge in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on Monday urged prosecutors to either charge hospital workers accused of killing four patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina or drop the case. Judge...

The Supreme Court of Israel ruled 6-1 Tuesday that same-sex marriages ordained abroad must be recognized by the state . The ruling does not allow for same-sex civil marriages to occur...