An appeals court in Guatemala City announced Tuesday that it has upheld a lower court decision which acquitted former President Alfonso Portillo of criminal charges that he had stolen over USD $15 million during his time as president. In...

British Petroleum (BP) filed an appeal Wednesday contesting the March 5 order of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana which approved the methods being used to calculate losses by the administrator...

Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation Tuesday which imposes tough restrictions on abortion clinics and practitioners within the state. The Women's Health and Safety Act was passed in the Alabama Senate by a 22-10 vote [AL.com...

The Canadian government announced Wednesday that it is withdrawing from a UN convention intended to fight droughts in Africa. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper claimed the move was necessary as the convention was "too bureaucratic"...

An Egyptian appeals court on Wednesday overturned the November 22 decree by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi which dismissed Prosecutor-General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud. Morsi had removed Mahmoud from office following...

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed into law Monday legislation requiring voters in the state present photo identification prior to voting. The governor signed two bills which established the new ID standards for elections....

The Indian Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for one of the plotters of the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings that killed 257 people. Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, brother of...

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned a Virginia anti-sodomy law on Tuesday, a decade after it was invalidated by a US Supreme Court decision in...

Google agreed Wednesday to a $7 million settlement for its collection of improper data during the course of its Street View campaign. The settlement arose from a suit brought by the attorneys general of...

The EU General Court on Thursday ruled against Poland in an appeal challenging the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) mechanism for distributing free-carbon permits. Poland had claimed that the law was inequitable in...