A German administrative court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Khaled El-Masri seeking the arrest and extradition of 13 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents whom El-Masri claims kidnapped and illegally detained...
Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was arrested in Austria on Friday pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by Croatia. Sanader, who was elected to parliament after he stepped down from the prime minister position in 2009, stands accused...
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in three cases related to the duty of generic drug manufacturers to list possible side effects on the labels of medicines they produce. The...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that prosecutors can indict a genetic profile in a rape case, even if they do not know the suspect's name. The ruling will allow prosecutors to indict suspects based on...
Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia Friday in Oslo, Norway. The prize was laid in an empty chair following the ceremony. It would normally be...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday criticized actions by governments and corporations to cut off funding to WikiLeaks , saying it could violate the website's rights to free expression. The...
Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the UN Security Council Thursday that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is deliberately protecting those accused of committing...
A court in the Italian town of Parma on Thursday convicted the founder and former chief executive of dairy giant Parmalat SpA , Calisto Tanzi , for the company's fraudulent bankruptcy, sentencing him to...
A French court decided Thursday to combine two separate cases involving misuse of public funds brought against former president Jacques Chirac , leaving him to face only one trial this spring. It is...
The US Senate failed Thursday to advance a vote on a bill to repeal the military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) , which prohibits openly gay men and women...