The Mexican Senate will vote Wednesday on a bill to reduce the punishment for possessing "personal use" amounts of certain drugs for first-time offenders, Mexican lawmakers announced Monday. The bill imposes only a fine on first-time offenders...

Republic of Guinea President Lansana Conte declared martial law Monday after several days of violence left at least 27 dead. The rioting began Saturday after Conte appointed a...

Russian military prosecutors said Monday that they plan to launch a probe into allegations that young men serving their mandatory military conscription period are being forced into prostitution by fellow soldiers. The Union of Soldiers' Mothers Committees...

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak testified Monday that former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby did not leak to him the identity of former undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame . Both Novak and Washington...

The Taipei High Prosecutors Office in Taiwan indicted Nationalist Party (KMT) leader Ma Ying-jeou Tuesday on corruption charges. The allegations against Ma, who had been...

The Brussels Court of First Instance ruled Tuesday that Google violated copyright law by linking to Belgian newspapers without receiving permission to do so. The Internet company was ordered to pay $32,500 (25,000 euros)...

North Korea agreed Tuesday that it would end its nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid as part of a multi-stage initiative with partners in the so-called Six-Party Talks . In...

An Idaho State Senate committee Monday passed a bill requiring written parental consent for minors to get abortions . In a 7-2 vote, the State Affairs Committee approved Senate Bill No. 1082 , which amends,...

The Indiana State Senate voted 39 to 10 Monday to pass a state constitutional amendment defining marriage to be between a man and a woman. While same-sex marriage is already illegal in the state...

The New Mexico House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would abolish the state death penalty . HB 190 proposes replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without possibility of release...