US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Tuesday announced a new pilot program under the federal No Child Left Behind program that is aimed at narrowing statewide education reform to focus on...

A US Marine sergeant was charged Tuesday with one count of murder and one count of dereliction of duty for his involvement in the shooting of a detained Iraqi insurgent during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004...

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, v. Executive Office of the President, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 18, 2008 [ordering the White House to explain why it should not be required to create...

Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, et al., v. The Regents of the University of Michigan, et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, March 18, 2008 [dismissing a constitutional challenge to an amendment banning affirmative action in...

The Parliament of Kenya Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a power-sharing agreement between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga . The Kenya Accord and Reconciliation Act 2008 , intended...

Nepalese police arrested 50 protesters Tuesday after roughly 200 Tibetan exiles demonstrated near the country's UN headquarters in Katmandu, demanding a UN investigation into China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . The protesters, who were arrested after refusing...

Judges ousted by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after his declaration of emergency rule last November can only be reinstated if the newly elected members of the National Assembly of Pakistan strike down constitutional changes...

Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr said in an affidavit released Tuesday that US interrogators in Afghanistan threatened him with rape, physically abused him, and forced him to swear to false statements. The 63-item statement,...

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Tuesday indicted a Bosnian Serb ex-soldier for crimes against humanity allegedly committed against Muslims in the Bosnian war of the...

A German state administrative court Tuesday upheld a ban on teachers wearing religious headscarves during school. The court in the federal district of Baden-Wuerttemberg ruled that the teacher who brought...