A new US Army Field Manual on intelligence interrogations released Wednesday specifies that the Geneva Conventions apply to all detainees and eliminates separate standards for the questioning...
A federal judge in Argentina Tuesday ruled unconstitutional a presidential pardon extended to Jorge Rafael Videla , who prosecutors say led Argentina's military junta during the worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" ...
The Court of Appeals of Virginia , the state's second-highest court, upheld the nation's first felony conviction for computer spamming on Tuesday, ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming statute does not violate the First Amendment or the so-called Dormant...
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the defeated Mexican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that he refused to recognize the officially-declared victory of president-elect Felipe Calderon and confirmed plans to...
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy underwent a "routine" stent replacement procedure at Washington Hospital Center on Saturday after complaining of chest pains, spokesperson Kathy Arberg revealed in a Tuesday statement [via...
The Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved a draft of a bill to bar inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from entering the country if the UN Security Council imposes...
New York Times researcher Zhao Yan is appealing the three-year prison sentence he received last week from a Beijing court that convicted him of fraud. Zhao was charged with accepting $2,500...
Danish police Tuesday charged seven men with planning a terror attack in the country after arresting them and two others in a raid on an Odense suburb populated largely by immigrants. Justice...
US Bankruptcy Judge Adlai Hardin Tuesday approved a request by Delta Airlines to end its pension plan for pilots. Delta reached a settlement with a group of retired pilots on Monday, agreeing...
A lawsuit by former Australian Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib against the Australian government could become the first court challenge to new security secrecy laws passed in 2004 . Australian prosecutors say that some of the evidence used...