An anti-bribery panel for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged governments on Friday to dig deeper into evidence of kickbacks and corruption reported by an independent UN commission investigating the UN's now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food...

Britain ran a secret prison at Bad Nenndorf in northwest Germany that tortured and starved to death inmates for two years after the end of World War II, according to a Saturday report from the Guardian. Inmates included Nazi...

Iraqi authorities began to ease tight election security measures Saturday by lifting the ban on traffic and opening all borders except for the border with Syria, which will reopen in a few days. Thursday's election ...

In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush acknowledged that he has approved secret eavesdropping in the US and said that he has no intention of putting an end to National Security Agency monitoring...

The appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Friday stayed a trial chamber decision that would have allowed former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to return to...

The US House of Representatives late Friday evening narrowly approved a tough new border security and immigration bill that includes plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and...

New York-based human rights Human Rights Watch warned Friday that the McCain Amendment prohibiting the cruel and inhumane treatment of US-held detainees that was finally endorsed Thursday by a reluctant Bush administration could yet be...

Canadian-born media tycoon Conrad Black , former chairman of publishing giant Hollinger International, pleaded not guilty in Chicago Friday to an additional four felony counts that include racketeering and obstruction of justice. Black,...

Sixteen key sections of the Patriot Act came closer to year-end expiration Friday as the Republican leadership in the US Senate failed to get the votes of three-fifths of the...

The French Senate has approved a slightly amended version of a new anti-terror law providing for increased public video surveillance, more access by authorities to communications records and passenger information, and new...