The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of a gang member who tortured and killed two teenage girls . The reason for the stay, announced in a...

Australia's three major news organizations have submitted a joint report to the Australian Law Reform Commission , the independent federal statutory agency charged with conducting official inquiries into areas for possible legal reform, slamming the late...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, South Korea's Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Hyundai Chairman Chung Mong-koo has been indicted on charges of embezzling company funds and allegedly using secret accounts to bribe politicians. Chung was...

Malawi Vice President Cassim Chilumpha has been released on bail but placed under house arrest three weeks after police arrested him in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika [official...

Judges from Thailand's Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, and Administrative Court on Tuesday rejected the October 22 date set by the Election Commission for new parliamentary elections and again demanded that the Commission resign ...

Defense witnesses began testifying Tuesday in the trial of Saddam Hussein , following Monday's reading of formal charges against the deposed Iraqi leader and seven co-defendants for murder, torture, and the illegal arrests of 399...

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali , who was born in Somalia, resigned her office Tuesday and announced that she will leave the Netherlands in response to the controversy surrounding her naturalization. Ali admitted lying on her 1992 asylum...

New York City has filed a lawsuit against 15 rogue out-of-state gun dealers in an attempt to stymie the influx of weapons into New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. The suit, which was filed in the...

A Russian judge on Tuesday said that Nurpashi Kulayev participated in the September 2004 Beslan school siege , committing an act of terrorism, but has not yet issued a final verdict on Kulayev's guilt....

Federal Communications Commission chief Michael J. Copps said Monday that the agency should investigate the access to domestic customers' phone records allegedly granted to the National Security Agency (NSA) [official...