Kenneth Lay , former CEO and founder of Enron , told a jury Monday that the collapse of the company in 2001 has caused him "hurt and destruction and pain" on...

The jury in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui began deliberations Monday on whether to spare his life or to execute him for conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . At the close...

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday issued a new compliance manual that is meant to clarify how employers and employees should interpret anti-discrimination laws found in Title VII of the Civil Rights...

Internet company Yahoo may be responsible for leading Chinese police to the identity of a pro-democracy activist who was sentenced to four years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday. Jiang Lijun was...

After serving 19 months in a Chinese prison on charges of disclosing military secrets and being told the charges would be dropped last month, New York Times researcher Zhao Yan learned Monday that he...

Tyco. has agreed to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission a $50 million civil penalty and a $1 disgorgement fee for fraudulent accounting procedures used between 1996 through...

Jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday heard the cockpit audio recording of the moments before United Airlines Flight 93 slammed into a Pennsylvania field...

Nepalese riot police shot and killed a pro-democracy protester and arrested twenty-nine journalists and five human rights activists on Wednesday in the seventh straight day of pro-democracy demonstrations aimed at ending the direct rule government of...

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Nepal marched in the streets again on Monday for a fifth straight day to protest the direct rule government of King Gyanendra , defying curfews , tear gas and rubber bullets....

Charles Taylor , the former president of Liberia indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , will challenge a prosecutor's motion that seeks to move his trial from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to...