Hungary agreed Monday to change its controversial media law following negotiations between Hungarian and EU representatives. The new law, which controls private television and radio broadcasters, newspapers, and online news sites, has been criticized as being too...

The Iraqi government is operating secret prisons, and suspects held in Iraqi custody have been systematically tortured since before the 2003 US invasion, according to a Tuesday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, "Broken...

The Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan on Monday named former president Pervez Musharraf as an accused in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto . Musharraf's name...

Closing arguments began Tuesday in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, despite Taylor's absence from the courtroom. UN prosecutors said the trial will...

A Milan court on Monday ordered Italian authorities to release former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdel Ben Mabrouk , finding that the eight years Mabrouk served at Guantanamo and the year he spent in an Italian...

Bank of America (BOA) has reached a $410 million settlement in a class action suit accusing the bank of excessive overdraft fees, according to documents submitted Friday in the US District Court Southern District of Florida [official...

Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Monday began selecting the jury in the corruption trial of former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella for his role in a juvenile...

The UK's top civil servant reported Monday that the previous administration " all it could" to facilitate a Libyan appeal to allow for the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi [BBC profile;...

UN rights experts called Monday for all global communities to participate in the effort to end female genital mutilation (FGM) . The statement, marking the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Genital Mutilation...

A total of 98.83 percent of nearly 3.8 million southern Sudanese voters voted in favor of secession in last month's Southern Sudan's Independence Referendum, according to the final polling results released Monday by the Southern Sudan Referendum...