The US House Ethics Committee will hold hearings Thursday on the Mark Foley scandal . Former Foley chief of staff Kirk Fordham is set to testify about when he notified the staff of US House...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a $10,000 fine levied by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) against a US man who willfully violated the 1990-2003 international...

A new child labor law , which criminalizes the hiring of children under the age of 14 as house servants or restaurant workers , took effect in India on Tuesday. Offending employers...

Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was charged Tuesday with more than a dozen counts of corruption. The charges filed before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, a special corruption court that has the power to strip elected...

Lawyers representing the estate of former Enron chairman Ken Lay have filed papers asking US District Judge Sim Lake to rule on a nearly two-month-old request to...

The whereabouts and fate of at least 40 prisoners captured by Canadian forces in and around Afghanistan and later transferred to local or US authorities since the invasion of the country by US-led forces in 2001...

Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began hearing public testimony Tuesday, with several people testifying about the crimes and abuse that occurred during the country's 14-year civil war . One man...

Lee Boyd Malvo pleaded guilty Tuesday to six Maryland murders that occurred during a three-week shooting spree in the Washington, DC area in 2002. A sentencing hearing for the pleas will occur on...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in United States v. Resendiz-Ponce , 05-998, a case that asks justices to decide whether leaving an element of...

Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Tuesday that his government will lift martial law "as soon as we can and when the situation is suitable." The promise came during the first cabinet meeting of the...