At least four White House lawyers participated in discussions about whether the CIA should destroy videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , the New York Times reported Wednesday. It had previously been reported that Harriet Miers,...

Russia's December parliamentary elections were riddled with corruption and fraud, corruption watchdog Transparency International and Russian human rights group Golos said Tuesday. The agencies cited instances of official pressure on voters and suspiciously high turnout figures in...

Ayodele Fayose , the former governor of the Nigerian state of Ekiti has been arraigned on corruption charges in Nigeria , court officials said Tuesday. Fayose is accused of embezzling 1.2 billion naira in...

The Hungarian parliament Monday voted 185 to 164 to recognize civil partnerships between same-sex couples, giving them the same inheritance, tax, and financial rights as married heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples will not, however, be able...

The UN General Assembly Tuesday voted 104-54 with 29 abstentions in favor of a resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty . Though non-binding, supporters of...

The European Court of Justice ruled against a Swedish trade union Tuesday, finding that it illegally blocked a Latvian construction company from completing a job in Sweden when the company refused to...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Tuesday voted to relax media ownership rules , overturning a 32-year-old rule barring media companies from owning both a newspaper and a television station in any one of...

A US military judge ruled Monday that Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan is due a hearing to settle his alleged status as a prisoner of war (POW) under the...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has refused to consider an appeal by former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif against an earlier ruling declaring him ineligible to run in January 8 parliamentary elections ,...

A Guatemalan court has ruled that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and other high ranking military officers cannot be extradited to Spain where they have been charged with genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity. In last...