Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called for congressional action on regulation of the hedge fund industry, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. Blumenthal told the panel that federal oversight was needed to fill...

Terry Collins , director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has set forth several changes in Ohio's lethal injection protocol in a report and letter addressed to Ohio Governor Bob...

Indonesia is preparing to execute three men convicted in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings , a spokesman from the Indonesian Attorney General's office said Wednesday. Under Indonesian law, spokesman Wayan Pasek Suarte could not disclose the location or...

A UK High Court judge ruled Wednesday that control orders authorizing the electronic monitoring or house arrest of terror suspects where there is not enough evidence to prosecute or convict them violate Article 5 ...

The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit seeking an order compelling Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to stop visiting the Yasukuni war shrine , a shrine that honors all Japanese war dead, including war...

Human rights groups have condemned the decision of the al-Warraq Misdemeanor Court in Egypt to sentence controversial newspaper editor Ibrahim Eissa to a year in prison for publishing a report critical of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [official...

A London-based civil liberties group has asked data-protection and privacy officials in more than a dozen countries to prevent the further release of confidential financial information to American authorities. The watchdog group, Privacy International , said...

Nepalese officials have delayed the drafting of an interim constitution, which will allow Maoist rebels to join an interim government, for at least another two weeks, according to Laxman Prasad Aryal, a former Supreme Court Justice and leader of...

Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk on Tuesday reversed an earlier decision revoking citizenship from former MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali , who was born in Somalia. Ali resigned from the Dutch parliament in May after...

Former US attorney general turned Saddam Hussein defense lawyer Ramsey Clark told a Washington press conference Tuesday that executing Saddam only would only precipitate more sectarian violence in Iraq. He made the comment only a few days...