Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District has agreed to pay $1 million in plaintiff's attorneys' fees after a federal district court found that the school district's inclusion of intelligent design theory in its high school biology curriculum was...

The government of South Korea is seriously considering abandoning capital punishment, according to officials at the country's Justice Ministry on Wednesday. Earlier this week the ministry ordered a study to determine how abolishing the death penalty -...

New Haitian president Rene Preval said Wednesday that ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has a legal right to re-enter the country. In his first news conference since his victory in the February 2...

A Rhode Island jury Wednesday found three former lead paint manufacturers responsible for creating a public nuisance that had contaminated thousands of homes and continues to poison children. The jury found Sherwin Williams, NL Industries Inc. [corporate...

EU justice and interior ministers meeting in Brussels Tuesday approved a controversial data retention directive passed by the European Parliament in December designed to track down terrorists, paedophiles, and criminal gangs and...

Trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday in El Paso, TX for Sgt. Alan J. Driver, a reservist accused of abusing prisoners at Bagram Control Point in Afghanistan . He is the...

The Bush administration has indicated that journalists can be prosecuted for receiving or publishing classified information under the United States Espionage Act . US Department of Justice lawyers made the assertion in a January...

US Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock , military commander for US Southern Command , which oversees the detention center at Guantanamo Bay , has confirmed that military officials have begun employing more aggressive tactics to...

Krishna Sitaula, leader of the opposition Nepali Congress , was arrested at his home on Wednesday, just two days after he was released from prison , along with several other opposition politicians, according to an order...

Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, have denied that they are trying to derail the prosecution in the CIA leak case by requesting...