A former UN official pleaded guilty Monday to US charges that he accepted close to $1 million in bribes from UN contractors in the Oil-for-Food scandal . Alexander Yakovlev, a procurement officer...

Palestinian Chief Justice Zuhair Sourani has said he is retracting his Saturday resignation in reaction to promises made by President Mahmoud Abbas to increase protection of Palestinian courts and judges. Lawyers and judges shut down the Palestinian...

Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of the Muslim clerics being investigated by British authorities for remarks supporting the London bombers , left the country on Saturday and is now in Lebanon. Mohammed reportedly praised insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in a letter Monday that he intends to question him at upcoming confirmation hearings on the extent of Congress's power,...

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri , an Illinois student from Qatar, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina Monday accusing his military jailers of violating his human rights [Human Rights Watch...

After a sandstorm got in the way of talks yesterday, Iraqi leaders met again on Tuesday to try and iron out their last remaining differences in order to submit a constitution by the August 15 deadline. Iraqi...

Microsoft announced a $7 million settlement Tuesday of its lawsuit against Scott Richter and his company, once one of the biggest spammers in the world. Last summer Richter's company also paid $50,000 in penalties and costs [NY...

Lebanon's cabinet Monday night approved the creation of a 12-member, half-Muslim, half-Christian committee that is charged with drafting a new election law. The country conducted elections in May and June under the 2000 election law [official text...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's latest plans to fight terror have drawn cross-party criticism and have led one senior MP from Blair's own Labour Party to level accusations that the government response to terror threats is panicked. Blair's recent...

A long-awaited FDA ruling on access to an emergency contraceptive called Plan B is expected to be announced by the end of the month, as part of a deal that got Lester Crawford approved by...