Lea Fastow, wife of former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, was released from prison Monday after serving a one year sentence. Fastow, a former assistant treasurer at the Texas corporation, pleaded guilty last...

In some of his most pointed remarks since becoming pontiff in April, Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against same-sex marriage , artificial birth control and divorce Monday while speaking to a group at Rome's St....

Former Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Finneran was indicted Monday on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about his role in a redistricting plan [Common Cause backgrounder on redistricting...

Lawyers for former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy said Monday he is unwilling to reach a plea bargain with prosecutors and is prepared for a retrial if necessary. Scrushy denies wrongdoing in the $2.7 billion accounting fraud...

Taiwan's largely ceremonial National Assembly will conduct its final business Tuesday as it votes on proposed amendments to the island-nation's constitution . The passage of the amendments is virtually guaranteed, as the two largest political parties in...

The Nepal Bar Association has called for the immediate dissolution of the royal government and new parliamentary elections after approving a resolution Sunday that characterized the 1 February declaration of a state of emergency by...

The South Korean Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs announced Monday a plan to enact a law that would allow families of South Koreans kidnapped by the North Korean government in the 1960s and '70s to...

A prosecutor in the trial of former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian said in his opening remarks Monday that Al-Arian was at one time the most powerful man in an organization responsible for the deaths...

Voters in Chad went to the polls Monday to decide whether the current limitation of two terms on the country's president should be removed from Chad's constitution . The referendum is being held in response to a...

A trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ruled Monday that former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj would be granted provisional release pending his war crimes trial at The Hague, but...