US District Judge Amy St. Eve of the Northern District of Illinois Monday rejected a motion for a new trial or an acquittal filed by Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black...

Wire services are reporting that the US Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 Tuesday in favor of the nomination of former federal judge Michael Mukasey to serve as the next US attorney general. Mukasey's nomination...

A Chadian prosecutor Monday questioned Europeans detained for attempting to airlift 103 children from Chad, including three Spanish flight crew members and five workers from the French charity Zoe's Ark ....

The Federal Court of Canada ruled Monday that Amnesty International and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association should be granted public interest standing to seek judicial review of the actions or potential actions of Canadian...

The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled Monday that the Zimbabwean government can legally expropriate the agricultural equipment of white farmers under the Acquisition of Farm Equipment Act , finding that the government expropriated the equipment with the public...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that he views a decision by US lawmakers to postpone debate on a resolution labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of...

Pakistan's Attorney General Malik Qayyum told Pakistan's News daily Monday night that the government has reduced the size of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to 12 and would elevate lower court judges to fill out the complement...

Dismissed Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry Tuesday urged lawyers in Pakistan to resist President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule and "stand up for the constitution." Speaking by telephone to a gathering of lawyers...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for countries to hold to treaties restricting chemical and explosive weapons in remarks at two separate meetings Monday. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Sergio Duarte read Ban's statement during a conference...

Florida death row inmate Ian Deco Lightbourne on Monday asked the state supreme court to reconsider its decision last week that Florida's revised lethal injection protocols do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of...