Lawyers for jailed former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev , filed an appeal Friday challenging their six-year extended sentences for embezzlement and fraud. Unless the appeal succeeds,...

Officials from the United Nations on Friday warned supporters of ousted Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo not to attack the Golf Hotel, where UN peacekeeping forces now stand...

The Washington Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Thursday that holding death row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely is not an impermissible increase in the severity of punishment. The suit was initiated by Jonathan Gentry, who was sentenced...