US District Judge William Hoeveler temporarily blocked the French extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega Wednesday to give Noriega's lawyers time to argue that his rights will not be fully protected in France....

An Australian government solicitor Wednesday filed an appeal contesting last month's Federal Court of Australia decision to reinstate the work visa of Dr. Mohammad Haneef , who was detained by Australian authorities...

An anchoring and fastening product manufacturer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from the July 10, 2006 ceiling panel collapse in Boston's $15 billion Big Dig tunnel project that killed one person....

Israel's justice minister has dropped language from a proposed amendment to the nation's inheritance law that would define common law marriage to be between a man and a woman, according to a statement made to the Association for Civil...

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel Wednesday issued an advisory opinion rejecting certification of a voter-backed ballot proposition that would ban adoptions by unmarried couples. The measure, submitted by the Family Council of Arkansas ,...

The Canadian Army Tuesday announced that independent investigators have found no evidence to support allegations that the army "may have aided or abetted the torture of detainees" by transferring them from Canadian to...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday heard the first set of arguments in a legal challenge to the rule of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf . The lawsuit challenges the fact that Musharraf is both the country's...

On a visit to Sydney, Australia to attend the 2007 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit , US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that it was "inexcusable" for the recently-concluded constitutional convention in Myanmar to have excluded opposition...

A Bulgarian special panel investigating the country's communist-era police records said Tuesday that current Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and 19 other lawmakers collaborated with the country's communist-era secret service . The panel, created under legislation declassifying...

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other civil rights groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the state of Arizona claiming that the Legal Arizona Workers Act...