The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced that it is forming a specialized unit to monitor news coverage. A ministry spokesman told AP the unit was designed to correct “fabricated and false news” that he claims gives...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases Friday, most notably Morse v. Frederick (06-278) , which addresses whether a school board had the right to suspend a then-high school...

Four of six Dutch terror suspects on trial for planning attacks against Dutch politicians and government facilities were found guilty in Amsterdam Friday. The convicted include 20-year-old Samir Azzouz , who was sentenced to a prison...

The US Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced Friday that it has settled 45 lawsuits concerning 22 priests accused of clergy sexual abuse for $60 million. Ray...

Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj , who has been on hunger strike for since Nov. 11, agreed Friday to medical examination by an "independent" team of doctors composed of a Serb,...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed new legislation Friday allows rape cases to be tried in either secular or Islamic courts, reduces the evidentiary burden necessary for conviction, and substitutes a fine and five-year prison term...

Maryland's solicitor general urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Thursday to overturn a district court decision striking down Maryland's Fair Share Health Care Fund Act . The law...

A California appeals court has ruled that a 2005 referendum authorizing the transfer of land, on which a 29-foot cross commemorating veterans sits, to the federal government did not violate the California constitution . The land,...

A Japanese court on Friday ordered the government of Japan to pay 468 million yen to 61 Japanese plaintiffs who were displaced as children in China after World War II. The plaintiffs - known as "war...

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud Friday reiterated his rejection of the Lebanese cabinet's approval of a measure that would establish a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former...