Lu Jianhua, a Chinese sociologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences accused of an unspecified crime involving state secrets, went on trial Wednesday at the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court. Though the facts...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Bible included in a monument in front of a Harris County, Texas civil courthouse promotes Christianity and...

US Army Major General James Thurman will decide in September whether four US soldiers accused of raping and murdering a 14-year old Iraqi girl and killing three family members in Mahmudiya will...

An attorney representing Valerie Plame, the undercover operative whose revealed identity precipitated the CIA leak scandal , announced Tuesday he would use legal precedent from former President Bill Clinton's sexual harassment trial in a bid to force...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) on Tuesday sued the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania on behalf of 11...

British authorities on Tuesday arrested another suspect in connection with last week's foiled terror plot to blow up jetliners headed for various airports in the United States, bringing the number of arrested suspects up to 25. London's...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday visited the Yasukuni war shrine on the anniversary of the day when Emperor Hirohito surrendered World War II in 1945. The shrine honors all Japanese war...

The ruling military junta in Myanmar will resume negotiations for a new constitution this fall, Myanmar Ambassador to the Philippines Thaung Tun said Tuesday. Tun told journalists that the constitution is 75 percent complete,...

A US federal court judge has released the Chicago Public Schools from federal budgetary reporting oversight in respect of its desegregation efforts more than 25 years after a 1980 agreement that required...

Some 24,000 illegal immigrants with school-age children are waiting to learn whether they will be deported from France after the expiration of a Monday deadline set by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for...