Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Tuesday agreed to pay $58 million to settle lawsuits brought by 29 states and the District of Columbia regarding Merck's allegedly deceptive advertising for the painkiller Vioxx [Merck...
The trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and seven co-defendants resumed Tuesday, three weeks after a brief opening session and subsequent adjournment at the Iraqi High Tribunal ...
Pakistan's governing Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will propose an amendment to the country's 1973 Constitution to restrict judicial and presidential power, Pakistan's News daily reported Tuesday. The proposed amendment would raise the mandatory retirement age for...
Military defense lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay detainees allegedly behind the Sept. 11 attacks are attempting to delay their clients' arraignments, currently scheduled for June 5. They allege the US government has interfered...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday upheld a district court ruling that the design of US paper currency discriminates against the blind in violation of Section 504 of the...
Jaber Elbaneh, a Yemeni-American on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List for alleged participation in acts of international terrorism, was jailed in Yemen Monday after an appeals court upheld his ten-year prison sentence. Elbaneh was...
Doudou Diene , the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, is visiting the US this week to gather first-hand information on issues of race relations ....
American Council of the Blind v. Paulson, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, May 20, 2008 [ruling that the US paper currency discriminates against visually-impaired citizens in violation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is pursuing fraud charges against four former Time Warner executives for their alleged involvement in a 2000-2002 plot to defraud investors by inflating advertising revenue, according to Monday reports....
UK legislators Monday voted 336-176 against a proposed ban on the use of human-animal hybrid embryo stem cells in scientific and medical research. The decision was highly controversial, with many...