The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that Christine Todd Whitman , former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , cannot be sued for making allegedly misleading reassurances about the...

The Iraqi government on Monday released 122 detainees from a prison in Sulaimaniyah under an amnesty law passed in February as part of the national reconciliation effort. The release was part of an effort to ease crowding...

At least two dozen former and current detainees have alleged that they were either forcibly administered drugs or witnessed the forceful administration of drugs on other detainees while in US custody, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The detainees, held...

Convicted former top Chinese Communist Party official Chen Liangyu has decided not to appeal his corruption conviction , Chinese media reported Tuesday. Chen was found guilty earlier this month of accepting bribes and abuse of...

A federal judge on Monday dismissed claims of fraud against State Farm Insurance by a Mississippi couple who claimed that the company denied their insurance claim for damage from Hurricane Katrina based on bad...

Pakistan's coalition government has not yet reached a specific agreement on restoring judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf last year after he declared emergency rule , former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim...

Twenty-eight anti-government activists were indicted in Zimbabwe on Monday on public disorder charges related to a strike organized by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) last week to protest the nondisclosure of the results...

Serbia's war crimes court has charged four former members of a notorious Serbian paramilitary organization with war crimes stemming from their alleged involvement in a 1999 massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in the Kosovar village of Podujevo, the Serbian...

Federal prosecutors on Monday accused the former deputy chief of staff of the Department of Justice Criminal Division of criminal conflict of interest charges connected to his relationship with disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff ....

The New Jersey Supreme Court Monday ruled that Internet service providers may not turn over users' personal information to police or other agencies unless they obtain a valid grand jury subpoena when the information sought...