The US Supreme Court Monday turned back a number of cases brought before it for review, including the appeal of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan challenging the constitutionality...

A new law criminalizing the incitement of religious hatred came into effect makes intentionally stirring up hatred against people on religious grounds punishable by a...

A Chinese dissident writer has been formally arrested in Hangzhou on charges of "inciting subversion of power," advocacy group Chinese Human Rights Defenders said Sunday. Lu Gengsong was initially detained on August 24 on suspicion of...

Eight more detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay , the US Defense Department said Sunday. According to the DOD announcement, six detainees were transferred to Afghanistan, one was transferred to Libya and one to Yemen. The names...

The US Supreme Court begins its fall term Monday with oral arguments in cases concerning the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act and the state of Washington's primary election system. Among the...

Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday ordered three Islamabad law enforcement officials to be suspended over Saturday's crackdown on lawyers and journalists protesting the...

Unofficial results of Constituent Assembly elections in Ecuador on Sunday give the ruling coalition led by President Rafael Correa a landslide victory. Though Correa claimed an immediate victory, opposition leader...

Bangladeshi property tycoon Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and his family were convicted in absentia by Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission of evading taxes amounting to $1.2 million and sentenced to five years in jail Sunday. Sobhan, chairman of property...

A US military judge postponed an Article 32 hearing on US Army sniper Sgt. Evan Vela Sunday, following a fellow Army sniper's acquittal on premeditated murder charges . Vela, who has argued that he was simply...

Myanmar opposition leader and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi was briefly released from house arrest Sunday to met with visiting UN Special Envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari, but Gambari was not allowed to meet with...