A spokesman for Thailand's Supreme Court said Tuesday that when new parliamentary elections are held, the country's highest courts will take a leading role in guaranteeing free and open elections. The announcement comes one day after the Constitutional Court...

In the wake of the US government's decision to transfer five Chinese Uighur men from Guantanamo Bay to Albania, the Chinese government on Tuesday denounced the move as a violation of international law...

In a reversal of judgment, the American Bar Association on Monday lowered its rating of White House aide and nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Brett Kavanaugh from "well...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday that Australia will not implement a compulsory national identity card when he rolled out plans for a voluntary and comprehensive health and welfare card that will replace the...

A US military spokesman said in Baghdad Tuesday that following a military investigation and reports from human rights groups indicating that private contractors in Iraq are violating human trafficking laws in their...

David Keogh, a former British civil servant in the Cabinet Office, and Leo O'Connor, a former legislative assistant to former Labour MP Tony Clarke, have pleaded not guilty to breaching Section 3 of Britain's Official Secrets Act by...

In a report released Monday, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime criticized the efforts of countries around the world as ineffective in blocking the flow of people smuggled into countries, many of...

Evidence of prisoner abuse in facilities operated by Iraq's Interior Ministry was discovered by US inspectors as recently as February 2006, according to a report in Monday's Washington Post. According to the article, a handful of...

Software giant Microsoft opened day one of an expected five-day appeals hearing before the European Union's Court of First Instance by claiming that it should be allowed to both protect its intellectual property...

Leading Friday's environmental law news, the California Air Resources Board has approved a plan that calls for new emissions regulations and business incentives to reduce air pollution from shipping companies, railroads and trucking companies....