A judge on Iraq's federal court of appeal was assassinated by gunmen Monday morning on his way to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour. Amir Jawdat al-Naeib was also a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, the...

Admiral Mike Mullen , the Chairman of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff , said in an interview with reporters Sunday that the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba should be closed. Mullen,...

Chief of the South African Police Services Jackie Selebi resigned as president of INTERPOL on Sunday, in the wake of news that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa would be filing...

Croatian lawmaker Branimir Glavas , charged with committing war crimes against Serbs during the 1991 Serbo-Croatian war , was stripped of his parliamentary immunity on Saturday so that lawyers could proceed with his prosecution....

Ousted Pakistani Supreme Court Justice Rana Bhagwandas was placed under house arrest Saturday for urging members of the Karachi Bar Association to boycott judges who had taken oaths of office under President Pervez Musharraf's now-abrogated Provisional...

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was formally charged with extortion in Dhaka on Sunday. Hasina and co-defendant Sheikh Selim, a former Minister of Government, are accused of extorting around $1.16 million from two...

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said in an article published in the New Yorker Sunday that waterboarding , the controversial interrogation technique simulating drowning allegedly used against detainees by the CIA,...

Robert M. Nelson et al. v. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 11, 2008 [ruling that NASA cannot compel low-risk contract employees working at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory to undergo...

The Iraqi parliament on Saturday approved a bill that will allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to public life. The law, known as the Justice and Accountability...

A Chilean appeals court in Santiago Friday sentenced General Manuel Contreras , the secret police chief under former dictator Augusto Pinochet , to 10 years in prison. Contreras, the former head of Pinochet's...