In a verdict upholding gender equality, the Supreme Court of Nepal ruled Thursday that men can no longer divorce their wives on grounds of the latter's infertility. A special bench of the court declared a provision in...
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Polish prosecutors on Friday charged General Wojciech Jaruzelski with "organizing crimes of a military nature" and "carrying out crimes that consisted of the deprivation of freedom through internment" for his imposition of martial law ...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for the United Nations to reduce the number of reports it produces each year as part of his ongoing UN reform agenda first announced...
The Alabama House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill that would pardon Rosa Parks and others arrested for violating segregation-era laws. Under the proposal, arrest records of those pardoned would not be removed from...
Manfred Nowak , the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , has said that he is certain that the United States has secret detention facilities in Europe and has demanded access to the facilities....
The FBI has said that it will look into allegations of illegal activities connected to the distribution of millions of dollars worth of Red Cross supplies in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina . The announcement...
The US Transportation Security Administration lawyer who allegedly coached government witnesses in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial and nearly scuttled the prosecution's case is under criminal investigation by the US Attorney's Office in Philadelphia and...
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Thursday urged greater attention to reports of genocide in Sudan's Darfur region . In a speech to the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law [official...
Over 780 new allegations of clergy sex abuse were reported to the US Catholic Church in 2005, though a majority of the claims relate to incidents which occurred in past decades, according to a new audit...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved by a 12-6 vote S. 1768 , an amendment to 28 USC 45 that would permit Supreme Court proceedings to be televised, "unless the Court decides by a vote...
