The South African National Assembly passed the Civil Unions Bill Tuesday by a 230-41 vote, becoming the first African nation to recognize same-sex unions . The bill, without specific reference to heterosexual or...

Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint in Germany...

US District Judge Reggie Walton ruled Monday that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's proposal to limit what classified evidence I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby can present to the jury in the CIA leak trial...

Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Tuesday that martial law will not be lifted in Thailand, as had been anticipated . Thai Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas said last week that Surayud was...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has agreed to investigate allegations that government forces and the rebel group Karuna has been using children in its fights against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

US Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. will plead guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection to the alleged murder and kidnapping of an unarmed Iraqi civilian in Hamdania ,...

City council members in Farmers Branch, Texas voted Monday to approve several anti-immigration measures including making English the town's official language , imposing fines for landlords who rent to illegal aliens [Ordinance No. 2892...

Prosecutors for the US government Monday denied allegations by Jose Padilla that he was tortured while in US custody at a Navy detention facility in South Carolina. Padilla claims that he was subjected to...

The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld an Ohio regulation requiring a women to meet with a doctor 24 hours prior to an abortion procedure but reversed a District Court ruling ...

The US Supreme Court Monday denied an application by US citizen Mohammad Munaf for a temporary injunction postponing his transfer to Iraqi custody where he faces the death...