The New York Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether the court should overturn the state's 97-year old statute defining marriage as a union between a man and a...

The Orleans Parish Criminal District Court building in New Orleans officially reopens Thursday morning, and the first criminal trials since Hurricane Katrina struck at the end of August are scheduled to start on Monday....

The Prosecutor v. Charles Taylor, Appeals Chamber, Special Court for Sierra Leone, May 29, 2006 [dismissing a defense challenge to a prosecutor's motion to move the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the International...

Report to the President, Death of Slobodan Milosevic, Judge Kevin Parker, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, May 31, 2006 [finding that former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic died of natural causes on March 11 when guards found him dead...

Justice George Gelaga King, newly-elected president of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , has dismissed a defense challenge to a prosecutor’s motion to move the trial of former Liberian president Charles...

President Bush Wednesday pledged to aid the Rwandan government in apprehending individuals involved in the 1994 genocide during a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the White House. Bush also offered...

A preliminary investigation by the US Department of Defense (DOD) in February and March uncovered evidence that the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines in Haditha in November were without warning...

A former Enron broadband executive was found guilty Wednesday on one count of falsifying records and conspiracy and three counts of wire fraud, and another was acquitted on the same five charges, one year after their...

A leader of the Islamic Action Front , the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Wednesday criticized Jordan's draft anti-terrorism legislation as an oppressive, US-influenced bid to stifle Jordan's government reform movement...

A group of survivors of the September 2004 Beslan school siege in the Russia's North Ossetia republic announced Wednesday that they will appeal the guilty verdict against Nurpashi Kulayev , the sole...