Syria on Wednesday released 190 political prisoners, a move observers said was likely aimed at avoiding further confrontation with the US and UN. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered the pardons, which included some...

The trial of 13 alleged members of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group charged with conspiracy in the 2004 Madrid train bombings is set to begin Thursday in Brussels. The suspects, most of whom were...

A federal judge Wednesday refused to overturn the conviction of an aide to Osama bin Laden despite expressing doubts about the US government's handling of its case. US District Judge Kevin Duffy, in a 109-page ruling,...

The UN Human Rights Committee urged in a report Wednesday that Canada open an investigation into allegations that its law enforcement agencies cooperated in the torture of several Canadian citizens detained in Middle Eastern...

Republican senators continued a long-running effort to build support for breaking up the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into two circuits during a US Senate Judiciary Committee subcommitee hearing [witness list and...

Walt Disney shareholders have appealed a ruling by a Delaware court that the company's directors were not liable for approving a $130 million severance package for former President Michael Ovitz . The appeal sought...

Lawyers could be suspended for a year for repeatedly filing frivolous lawsuits under a bill introduced in the US House of Representatives as part of a Republican effort to limit such lawsuits. Supporters of the legislation say...

Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti has subpoenaed 73 employees of Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, as part of its ongoing investigation into deaths alleged at hospitals and nursing homes in the wake...

More than 2,000 companies around the world paid $1.8 billion in illegal kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein in abusing the now defunct UN oil-for-food program , according to parts of a UN investigation...

General Motors on Wednesday said that records relating to its pension program had been subpoenaed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an investigation into its accounting practices. GM said the subpoena...