The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of falsely claiming to have received a medal from the US military. Xavier Alvarez was convicted...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday dismissed piracy charges against six Somali men accused of involvement in the April attack on the USS Ashland in the...

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty Tuesday of making false statements to the FBI, but the jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois was deadlocked on 23...

Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday appeared before a government-backed commission investigating the events surrounding the island nation's civil war and defended the actions of the government during the conflict...

Spanish officials announced this week that Spain has launched an investigation into whether Google violated privacy laws while collecting information over Wi-Fi networks for its Street View maps . Madrid judge Raquel Fernandino issued...

The UK High Court on Tuesday suspended enforcement of a regulation requiring airlines to compensate passengers for flights that are delayed for more than three hours, until the European Court of Justice (ECJ) releases a new ruling...

Hezbollah officials on Tuesday submitted evidence to the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) linking Israel to the the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . The submission...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that a portion of the tax code requiring same-sex partners in a civil union to pay a larger inheritance tax than partners...

Former INTERPOL president and South African police chief Jackie Selebi on Tuesday filed for leave to appeal his sentence and conviction. A spokesperson for the South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) [official...

A federal judge on Monday rejected a $75 million settlement reached between Citigroup and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month to resolve charges of misleading investors about Citigroup's exposure to...