Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz , former chief investigator of the Buenos Aires province police, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for his role during the Dirty War in Argentina . With the conviction,...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told members of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Tuesday that Congress should mandate the preservation of customer records by Internet service providers in order to aid the...

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has directed the FCC's inspector general to investigate the alleged concealment of a 2004 draft working paper on television ownership and a...

The London Metropolitan Police pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to criminal charges under the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act for "failing to provide for the health, safety and welfare" of the public in...

Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri was removed from presiding over the second Saddam Hussein trial on Tuesday, Al-Iraqiya state television reported. A replacement judge, who has not yet been named, has been requested by the Iraqi prime...

Voters in Portugal could go to the polls in January 2007 to vote in a referendum on the legalization of abortion after the ruling Socialist Party made the proposal [press release, in...

A US Army spokesman said Friday that the Army has added a new specification to charges against 1st Lt. Ehren Watada based on a speech he gave in August to Veterans for...

UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland told the UN Security Council on Friday that sexual abuse of women and girls by soldiers in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo "has become a cancer in Congolese...

Leftist protestors objecting to the official results of Mexico's July 2 presidential election took down their so-called "resistance camps" on Mexico City's Reforma Avenue Friday. Supporters of losing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [campaign website, in...

US District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy aided genocide in order to access oil...