US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito used his 11-minute opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee late Monday afternoon to describe his family background, his education, and...

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Monday called on Serbia and Bosnia to step up their efforts to find wanted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic , both indicted for genocide and other war...

The Swiss Supreme Court Monday denied a Russian request for the transfer of bank documents to Russia relevant to an ongoing investigation into crippled Russian oil giant Yukos . The Swiss court...

Two Muslim men accused of supporting terror will stand trial after a federal judge in New York state ruled Monday that there was enough evidence to pursue the case despite defendants' arguments that they had been entrapped by FBI...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was granted bail on Monday after seven weeks of house arrest on the three remaining charges against him relating to the disappearance and presumed death of dissidents during his...

Swiss intelligence agents have been aware of secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe for nearly two months, according to documents leaked to the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick . According to SonntagsBlick, Swiss military intelligence [official website...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Hudson v. Michigan where it will decide whether police officers were justified in entering a plaintiff's home without knocking when they arrived with...

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government. Charges against Shaaban laid last...

The trial of three former police officers for the murder of prominent Ukraine opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has begun in Kiev. Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych are accused of carrying out the killing in September...

The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , charged under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 for inciting racial hatred, began in London on Monday. Hamza was arrested last May on a US extradition warrant, and...