A former civil servant was found guilty Tuesday of defrauding the Canadian government of more than $1.6 million in the so-called sponsorship scandal that helped bring down Canada's Liberal Party government in January. After seven days...

A UK court-martial found three British soldiers not guilty of manslaughter Tuesday in the drowning death of a 15-year-old Iraqi boy. The infantrymen - two members of the Irish Guards and one member of the Scots Guards...

The head of the criminal division of the US Justice Department , testifying Tuesday at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee , reiterated the DOJ's position that the federal government has the authority to...

A committee of the Kenyan National Assembly has shelved the latest version of a long-pending anti-terrorism bill , saying it will not be debated until the United States accepts responsibility for attacks on American interests in...

Allegations that members of the US military killed civilians in Iraq should be investigated by the United Nations and an Iraqi-US committee, Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi said Monday. Al-Hashimi, a Sunni,...

President Bush Monday denounced "activist judges" who have struck down state laws banning same-sex marriage as he urged Congress to approve the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment defining marriage as the union of a man...

Serbian members of parliament declared Serbia a sovereign nation Monday, two days after the parliament of Montenegro proclaimed its own independence from the former Serbia-Montenegro union. The breakup marks the final dissolution of what...

A Baghdad court has convicted one man but acquitted two others in connection with the abduction and murder of Margaret Hassan , the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Iraq in 2004 . Mustafa Salman, charged with aiding...

Several activist groups have sued the attorney general of Indonesia for dropping corruption charges against former President Suharto . Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh dismissed the charges last month because of the former...

The parliament of Nepal has unanimously adopted a resolution that would guarantee citizenship papers to children in their mother's name only, even if the father is away or divorced, and require more-proportionate representation of women in...