The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolavia (ICTY) on Wednesday charged Volislav Seselj with contempt of court after it was alleged that Seselj authored...

Discharging key campaign pledges on his third day in office, US President Barack Obama expressly banned US use of torture in interrogations and directed the immediate shutdown of CIA detention facilities in a third executive order...

Turkish police on Thursday arrested approximately 30 more people, including eight army officers, nine policemen, and a union leader, in an investigation of an alleged plot to overthrow the government of the ruling Justice and Development...

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two people to death and several to life imprisonment for their involvement in the melamine-tainted milk scandal that sickened almost 300,000 children and killed at least six. Chairwoman of the...

US President Barack Obama issued an executive order Thursday directing that the Guantanamo Bay military prison be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday ruled that an Illinois state law requiring a moment of silence in public schools is unconstitutional. Judge Robert Gettleman held...

Dawn S. Sherman, a minor, through Robert I. Sherman, her father and next friend, on behalf of herself and all other similarly situated, v. Township High School District 214, US District Court for the Northern of Illinois, January 21, 2009...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ended a decade-long battle by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to have the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA) declared constitutional by denying...

US President Barack Obama retook the presidential oath of office Wednesday, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts , following minor mistakes the two made in the wording of the oath during Tuesday's...

The Supreme Court of Uganda on Wednesday ruled that the death penalty is not prohibited by Uganda's constitution because it does not constitute cruel and inhuman punishment. The decision comes on an...