The sole surviving hostage-taker in the 2004 Beslan school siege will be given a new name to prevent retaliation by other inmates at the island penal colony where he will be imprisoned, a law...

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has issued regulations that forbid party and government officials from appointing relatives as subordinates, limits officials to two consecutive five-year terms and requires those who have...

One of the US soldiers charged with the rape and murders of Iraqi civilians in Mahmudiya told a criminal investigator that the attack's alleged ringleader repeatedly spoke of wanting to kill Iraqis, according to testimony given...

The federal trial of David Passaro , a CIA contractor accused of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan , began Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina. Passaro was charged in 2004, and has maintained that...

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the US is failing to adequately spread the positive aspects of the "Western idea of democracy," in an address to the American Bar Association at...

Martha Stewart has reached a settlement agreement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on insider trading civil charges , the SEC announced Monday. Stewart will pay $195,000, which is roughly...

A court in Argentina has convicted a former police officer of human rights violations during the country's so-called "Dirty War" , handing down the first sentence since the Argentine Supreme Court ...

The Israel Defense Forces detained Fadl Hamdan, a member of the Palestinian parliament , during an overnight raid early Monday morning in the West Bank. Israeli authorities did not explain their reason for the...

A Jordan military court Sunday convicted two lawmakers from the Islamic Action Front (IAF) , the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood , for expressing sympathy after the death of al Qaeda Iraq...

Radhika Coomaraswamy , the Sri Lankan human rights lawyer now serving as UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict , said in an interview with AFP published Sunday that UN officials are very...