Two Turkish Christians have gone on trial for their alleged "public denigration of the Turkish identity." Hakan Tastan, 37, and Turan Topal, 46, allegedly made insults against Turkey while attempting to convert other Turks to Christianity. The two defendants...

The government of Rwanda cut diplomatic ties with France Friday in protest at a French judge's recommendation that Rwandan President Paul Kagame face trial in connection with the 1994 downing of a plane carrying then-President...

The Beijing Higher People's Court Friday turned down an appeal by Hong Kong reporter Ching Cheong against his August conviction for passing state secrets. The presiding judge deemed the trial court's ruling "accurate in application...

Legal services in the UK are set to be revolutionized after the British government Friday published a much-anticipated bill that would remove the right of the legal profession to regulate itself and would allow other...

Thailand Army Commander-in-Chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin , the leader of the military coup that deposed civilian prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September, told CNN in an interview broadcast Friday that the...

Italian Minister of Culture Francesco Rutelli has demanded that the Getty Museum in Los Angeles return all the allegedly-looted Italian antiquities it is said to possess, and not just the 26 pieces of a total of 46...

Gory v. Kolver, Constitutional Court of South Africa, November 23, 2006 [ruling that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples, and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy as a...

The South African Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples , and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy...

International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that the tribunal could start its first formal trial in 2007 if judges confirmed charges against Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga...

Baze v. Rees, Supreme Court of Kentucky, November 22, 2006 [ruling that the state's use of a three-drug lethal injection does not violate the constitution because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence of...