A High Court judge in London on Wednesday granted requests by Scotland Yard to extend the detentions of 9 of 11 uncharged suspects in custody in connection with an alleged airline bombing plot said to have been foiled by police. Eight suspects had their detentions extended to August 30, the first time a British court [...]

Telecom giant AT&T sued 25 "John Doe" defendants in US federal court on Wednesday, alleging that the defendants had posed as customers to obtain personal customer information for use in domestic and legal disputes. The AT&T complaint alleges that the so-called "data brokers" fraudulently obtained data on about 2,500 customers, and if the lawsuit leads [...]

Australian detainee David Hicks has been kept in solitary confinement at Guantanamo Bay for about five months and his health is deteriorating, Hicks' US military lawyer Major Michael Mori said Wednesday. Mori insisted that Hicks is among the best-behaved inmates at the US military prison and there was no good reason for him to be [...]

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Tuesday sent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a memo detailing the pros and cons of all possible legal methods the government may use to investigate the country's conduct in the Middle East conflict . The memo, which was not released to the press, lists at least five options, the [...]

The kidnappers of two Fox News journalists who were abducted in Gaza City on August 14 have demanded that the US release "Muslims detained in American prisons" within 72 hours in exchange for the safe release of the journalists. The self-named "Holy Jihad Brigades" faxed their demand to news stations, and sent a video of [...]

The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL , will be authorized to use force to protect civilians under immediate threat and act in preemptive self defense according to a draft copy of its proposed rules of engagement obtained by wire services. UNIFIL was given an expanded mandate under UN Security Council Resolution 1701 , unanimously [...]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may not tax monies that Washington, DC plaintiffs receive to compensate for emotional distress injuries, according to a ruling released Wednesday by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit . The plaintiff in the case was fired from her previous job, brought suit against her employer, [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Israel of deliberately inflicting unnecessary damage on Lebanese civilian infrastructure during the Middle East conflict , acts which Amnesty says rises to the level of war crimes. In its report , Amnesty cited as evidence instances of Israeli airstrip's on remote bridges "of no apparent strategic importance," the destruction of [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has assigned counsel for Vojislav Seselj , ruling that Seselj may not conduct his own defense in his war crimes trial. According to the ICTY press release : In coming to its decision, the Trial Chamber described numerous instances where Vojislav Seselj behaved in an obstructionist, disruptive [...]

Faheem Khalid Lodhi, a 36-year-old Pakistan-born Australian immigrant, on Wednesday was sentenced to 20 years in prison with a minimum of 15 years served for his plan to wage a "holy war" by detonating homemade bombs around Sydney. New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Anthony Whealy said the maximum sentence given to Lodhi should be [...]