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...

UK Lord Justice Stephen Sedley said Wednesday that all UK citizens and visitors should have their DNA included in the national DNA database because the current repository is insufficient. Sedley said that...

Iranian-American journalist Parnaz Azima has been granted permission to leave Iran after months of being held in the country due to security-related charges against her, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) said Tuesday. Azima, employed by...