Same-sex couples in Northern Ireland will soon be able to adopt children, officials said Wednesday. The announcement came after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Health Minister Edwin Poots , finding that it did not...

The High Court of Australia on Thursday struck down The Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act of 2013 , which allowed same-sex couples to marry within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The court ruled...

A judge for South Korea's Seoul Central District Court on Thursday dismissed an attempt by Samsung to bans sales of certain Apple products in the country. Samsung claimed that Apple had infringed three patents with products such...

Former prime minister of Thailand and head of the opposition Democrat Party , Abhisit Vejjajiva , was formally charged Thursday with the murder of two individuals during the 2010 Thai military crackdown ...

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday reinstated an 1861 law prohibiting sex between consenting adults of the same sex, overturning a lower court decision. The law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, was passed during...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez the court will determine whether a district court considering a petition under the Hague...

Uruguay's Senate on Tuesday passed a measure to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. The bill, if signed into law by President Jose Mujica , will...

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Kansas v. Cheever that the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from introducing evidence from a court-ordered mental evaluation of a criminal defendant to...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In the consolidated cases of Environmental Protection Agency v. EME Homer City Generation and American Lung Association v. EME Homer City Generation [transcript,...

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs that the federal court did not have to delay proceedings while a similar state court proceeding was ongoing. The...