The Nepalese army has resorted to systematic torture to gain intelligence and confessions in its continuing fight against Maoist rebels in the country, the Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights said Friday. Special Rapporteur...

A federal judge on Friday gave US Airways the green light to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy , a little more than a year after the beleaguered airline sought protection. The approval clears the way for...

Educational institutions across the United States took up the subject of the US Constitution for a day Friday, each with their own twist. The nationwide history lesson for students in schools and universities...

Three more Guantanamo Bay detainees have been hospitalized as a hunger strike at the prison facility stretched through its second month. Following the hospitalization, a total of 21 are now being fed intravenously to...

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the country had a right to construct the West Bank barrier across occupied Palestinian land, once again disputing a International Court of Justice advisory opinion...

A new arrest warrant could be issued for the wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic if she fails to appear for the start of her corruption trial in Belgrade, a court spokesperson said Wednesday. Mirjana...

A federal judge in Argentina has ordered the arrest of a former military leader in the investigation into the death of a student during the country's "Dirty War" in the late 1970s. The judge...

Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti has said he will investigate hospitals and nursing homes throughout the state for evidence of negligence during the evacuation prior to Hurricane Katrina , making it seem likely that additional...

Frances Newton was executed by lethal injection late Wednesday at Huntsville prison in Texas for fatally shooting her husband and two children in 1987, making her the first black woman executed by the state since it...

A Bosnian court created to ease the caseload of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia opened its first trial Wednesday against war crimes suspect Boban Simsic, a member of a Serb paramilitary...