After meeting with lawyers from both sides earlier today , US District Judge Karon Bowdre ordered a juror replaced in the fraud trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , citing health reasons that interrupted deliberations....
A panel of Italian judges on Wednesday convicted 10 former Nazi SS soldiers in absentia for their roles in the 1944 massacre of over 500 Tuscan villagers . The 10 men all received life sentences after the three-judge...
Germany's Federal Administrative Court ruled Wednesday that a German army officer who refused to follow orders because he thought they would aid the US-led war in Iraq could not be forced to comply...
With the likely retirement of US Chief Justice William Rehnquist in the coming weeks, senior White House officials are cutting down their list of candidates and interviewing the final contending federal appeals court judges to replace him. The...
A grand jury in Washington, DC has indicted two men for the February 12 killing of Dorothy Stang , an American nun who was working in Brazil as an environmentalist. A landowner allegedly...
With the jury still unable to reach a verdict and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy unwilling to cut a deal in his trial for accounting fraud, US District Judge Karon Bowdre summoned...
Diplomats from various Western nations have been permitted to examine conditions at Ethiopia's largest jail for the hundreds of protestors arrested after the disputed May 15 election erupted into demonstrations and violence . Officials from Ireland,...
A Sunni spokesman said Wednesday that a list of names submitted for the fifteen full committee seats on the drafting committee for the new Iraqi constitution had been approved by the Shi'ite and Kurd politicians, despite...
A member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said in a speech Wednesday that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East established after World War II may have unjustly tried and convicted Japanese war...
The first ten men to be tried in Sudan for atrocities committed in the volatile Darfur region all pleaded not guilty Tuesday. The men, associated with the government-allied political group called...