A federal judge Wednesday set January 6, 2009 for the third terrorism prosecution of six men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami after two...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the city of New York against gun manufacturers, ruling that gun makers were immune from suit under a 2005 federal law...

Zimbabwean police have launched investigations into at least 100 cases of alleged fraud in the March 29 contested presidential election , officials said Wednesday. Police have arrested voters accused of voting multiple times in the election, as well...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday vowed to push for the passage of a new anti-terror bill that would allow British authorities to detain terror suspects up to 42 days without charge. Current law only authorizes detention...

A US military judge Wednesday rejected arguments that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was a child soldier when he was captured in Afghanistan and that the US military commission responsible for his trial lacks...

The Australian government will introduce legislation to amend over 100 federal laws to remove discrimination against same-sex couples , Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland said Wednesday. The legislation, which will be introduced during...

The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted Tuesday to restrict Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogators to techniques explicitly authorized by the military, approving a measure that would effectively prevent the CIA from using waterboarding...

A New York appeals court has upheld a jury's finding that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey voted Wednesday in favor of restricting the controversial Article 301 of the country's penal code , which makes "insulting the Turkish identity"...

US law firm Milberg LLP , formerly Milberg Weiss, is in negotiations with federal prosecutors to settle accusations related to an alleged kickback scheme, sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The firm pleaded not guilty in 2006...