US Attorney Preet Bharara filed a civil suit on Tuesday against Deutsche Bank in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York accusing the bank of engaging in mortgage fraud. Through...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit challenging Utah's controversial immigration law . The bill, which has...

A Honduran court on Monday dismissed the two remaining charges of conspiracy against former president Manuel Zelaya , allowing him to return to the country. The ruling could lead to Honduras being readmitted to the...

Spain's National Court on Tuesday sentenced two Somali pirates to 439 years in prison each for their involvement in the 2009 hijacking of a Spanish fishing boat off the coast of Somalia. Pirates Cabdiweli Cabdullahi...

The lawyer for accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk called for acquittal Tuesday as he presented his closing arguments in a German courtroom. Defense lawyer Ulrich Busch also argued that Demjanjuk should be awarded damages...

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo revealed that investigators have evidence that Libyan leader Mummar Gaddafi committed crimes against humanity. During an interview with the Associated Press, Ocampo said he...

Journalism rights group Reporters without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday released its annual list of predators of press freedom , which included the heads of state of several countries in the Middle East and North Africa....

Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi was released from jail Tuesday, nearly four months after his January arrest. Al-Turabi was jailed for calling on the Sudanese people to start a popular uprising, similar to Tunisia [JURIST...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in MBZ v. Clinton to determine whether the political question doctrine deprives a federal court of...

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court on Monday, shortly before he was to begin a seven-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault ....