Wednesday's scheduled execution of convicted mass murderer Michael Ross was postponed indefinitely Monday by order of District Judge Robert N. Chatigny, so that Chatigny can hear arguments on Ross' mental capacity. Had the execution by lethal injection...

Khalil al-Duleimi, an Iraqi lawyer representing ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has gone into hiding after receiving death threats over the last three weeks, Saddam's chief defense attorney Ziad al-Khasawneh announced on Monday. Al-Duleimi, one of...

Gannett Company , the nation's largest newspaper publisher, and the New York Times Company , are under investigation by federal antitrust enforcers regarding their plans to acquire rival papers, according to a report Monday by the...

Michael Newdow , the Sacramento man who challenged the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, has appealed to the Supreme Court for an injunction against the recitation of planned prayers at the Bush inauguration, saying that...

Families of the tsunami victims are pressuring the British government to amend the rules for when missing persons can be legally declared dead. Lord Charles Falconer announced today that legislators hoped to create a system to waive...

The European Parliament Wednesday overwhelmingly endorsed the first proposed EU constitution . Parliamentarians passed a resolution backing the constitution 500-137 in an initial stage of a ratification process that is expected to...

A South Korean appeals court Wednesday acquitted the operators of a Korean-language website that allows users to freely swap song files. Yang Jung-hwan and his brother, Il-hwan, created Soribada South Korea's most popular music-swapping site,...

A 63-year old Sri Lankan man has been released on bail after his initial arrest on charges of attempted to sell his two young granddaughters to foreigners after their home was destroyed, and their mother killed, by the tsunami...

The Chilean Court of Appeals on Wednesday approved bail of $3500 for former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet . Pinochet is being tried on nine counts of kidnapping, and one count of homicide which are alleged to have occured...

The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, approved a bill Wednesday which allows the government to ban foreign visitors who show "disrespect" to the country. Anyone found by a court to have offended Russia's...