A federal grand jury on Monday indicted former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy Richard Scrushy and Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on fresh charges of corporate corruption, the latest in a series of allegations against the men. The new indictment accuses Scrushy of paying off Siegelman for a seat on a state health regulatory board and [...]

US District Court Judge Larry Burns ruled Monday that US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had authority to waive all laws and legal challenges to the building of the final 3.5 mile section of a border fence running through coastal wetlands to the Pacific Ocean designed to thwart illegal immigrants in the southwestern US. Congress [...]

Luis Moreno-Ocampo , prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, is expected to tell the UN Security Council Tuesday that the ICC's investigation in Darfur has revealed large numbers of killings, mass rapes, and other "grave" crimes and has identified several alleged criminal incidents for full investigation. Moreno-Ocampo's report to the UN [...]

The UK High Court on Tuesday ruled that David Hicks , the Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay for over three years, should be registered as a British citizen. Hicks, whose mother was born in Britain, has petitioned for UK citizenship in the hopes that the UK will negotiate his release from Guantanamo, as it did [...]

Former Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Blackwill , who served during President Bush's first term, said Monday that while torture should not be widespread in Iraq, there may be instances where it might be appropriate. Answering questions at the Council on Foreign Relations, Blackwill cited a hypothetical where torturing a terror detainee could be justified [...]

Members of the Parliament of New South Wales have been recalled and will convene Thursday to consider new laws granting police extra powers to react to the ongoing Sydney race riots . NSW Premier Morris Iemma said Tuesday that lawmakers in the Australian state, of which Sydney is the capital, will triple the jail sentence [...]

Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams died at 12:35 AM Tuesday morning after being executed by lethal injection at California's San Quentin State Prison. The execution occurred a day after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to grant Williams clemency , finding that Williams had shown no remorse for the killings for which [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak admitted for the first time Tuesday that the recent month-long process of national voting for parliament seats and the Presidential office was flawed and should serve as a lesson to all of Egypt on what needs to be improved for the next national election. Mubarak denied that [...]

Retired chief justice for England and Wales Lord Woolf has criticized large-scale litigation by companies that often spend in excess of 100 million pounds on lawyers' fees. Woolf, a longtime proponent of mediation and alternative dispute resolution while on the bench, told the Financial Times that he viewed cases that cost millions of pounds and [...]

UK-based human rights group Liberty has said that remarks by UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw that the US had not requested clearance for any flights relating to rendition only served to demonstrate that the British government was turning a 'blind eye' to the practice. Straw said Monday that no requests by the US had been [...]