Health officials said Wednesday that state laws which prohibit a mercury-based vaccine preservative could impede efforts to fight an avian flu pandemic should an outbreak occur. At a meeting of the US Department of Health and Human Services National...

The Iraqi government has said that it has been unable to complete an investigation into allegations that prisoners at an interior department facility were tortured because mistakes made by US soldiers who discovered the site tainted some of the...

A bombing at a Bangladesh court complex Thursday during a strike by lawyers in the country has wounded 25. The blast is the latest in a series of bombings outside courthouses and reportedly occurred near a...

UN leaders have largely given up on completing a comprehensive treaty against terrorism before the end of the year, as hoped by UN leaders, with a working committee on the treaty failing to break an impasse over...

The government's lead counsel in its lawsuit against the tobacco industry on Wednesday withdrew from the case, as an investigation continues into whether political pressure forced the government to lower its demands in the case. Sharon Eubanks,...

The California Supreme Court late Wednesday denied a request by Stanley Tookie Williams , the Crips gang founder turned anti-gang activist, to halt his scheduled execution. Defense lawyers for Williams challenged forensic evidence in the case...

Authorities in France and Belgium have arrested fifteen suspects connected with a suicide bombing attack in Iraq on November 9 carried out by a woman who has been confirmed as a Belgian national married to an...

A UK High Court has heard an extradition appeal by three British men charged in connection with the Enron scandal challenging the validity of the British government's approval of a US extradition request ....

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says he has written a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , on behalf of EU nations , questioning the landing of CIA planes in nineteen airports [Guardian...

Samuel A. Alito to the US Solicitor General, Memo re: Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians, US Department of Justice, May 30, 1985 [advocating a gradual challenge to the fringes of Roe v. Wade, rather than an all-out assault on...