US Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) said Sunday they will push legislation in the US Congress that would mandate that states improve their system for reporting mental health records of...
President Bush defended US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday after US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, publicly criticized Gonzales Sunday for his role in...
An arrest warrant issued over the weekend for former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was suspended Monday after police asked the judge presiding over the case to allow them more time to continue their investigation....
Boris Yeltsin , Russia's first elected president and the primary architect of the country's shift towards democratic government in the 1990s, died Monday, according to Russian wire services. Yeltsin was 76 and had a history of health problems,...
A Bangladeshi court issued a warrant Sunday for the arrest of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed who is currently exiled in London. Wajed was stopped from boarding a plane in London Sunday after...
A previously undisclosed report by US Army Major General Eldon Bargewell into the November 2005 killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha found "serious misconduct" on all levels of the...
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation Saturday recognizing domestic partnership status for same-sex couples. The law guarantees gay and lesbian couples some of the legal rights that previously were afforded only to husband...
The two major opposition parties in Nigeria and an election watch group on Sunday challenged the legitimacy of the country's Saturday presidential elections, reporting voting delays and potential ballot-rigging in favor of the People's Democratic Party...
Former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov has accused Russian police of "brutality" after meeting with Kremlin officials Friday to give an account of his treatment at...
A French appeals court Saturday acquitted one of 12 individuals who appealed their convictions in a 2005 child prostitution case, one of the biggest criminal trials in the country's history . Sixty-two men and women were...