Jury selection began Wednesday for the UK trial of eight men accused of plotting to blow up US-bound jetliners over the Atlantic. In August 2006, prosecutors charged the eight with conspiracy to commit...

US senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Christopher Dodd (D-CT) have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after learning that the number of fines...

Belarusian district courts Wednesday sentenced at least 55 demonstrators for participating in a banned "Freedom Day" rally in Minsk to protest against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko . "Freedom Day" first began as a celebration...

German prosecutors Tuesday charged the chair of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) with libel and inciting racial hatred for comments he made about a German soccer player. Udo Voigt [party...

US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred has affirmed a prior ruling that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan may send written questions to Khalid Sheik...

Nepalese police arrested 50 protesters Tuesday after roughly 200 Tibetan exiles demonstrated near the country's UN headquarters in Katmandu, demanding a UN investigation into China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . The protesters, who were arrested after refusing...

A German state administrative court Tuesday upheld a ban on teachers wearing religious headscarves during school. The court in the federal district of Baden-Wuerttemberg ruled that the teacher who brought...

A Belgian government commission on restitution for Holocaust victims issued its final report Tuesday, finding that Holocaust survivors, victims' families and the general Jewish community should receive $170 million to compensate for the money and...

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's anti-funeral picketing law is unconstitutional, finding that it violates the separation of powers doctrine implied by the Kansas constitution . The court ruled that...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo asked the Philippine Congress Tuesday to work with her administration to pass a comprehensive anti-corruption reform act to fight the corruption she said has plagued the country for decades. Arroyo...