Transparency International , an international corruption watchdog group, said Wednesday in its 2006 Global Corruption Report that malfeasance in both private and public sector health care systems around the world was rampant and...

Mark Koenig, former executive VP of investor relations at Enron , testified in the early stages of the prosecution case Wednesday that founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , both...

New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cast his first vote on the country's highest court on Wednesday in a decision to deny a request to vacate the stay of execution for...

Quebec Justice John Gomery Wednesday released the second report of his judicial commission of inquiry into the Canadian sponsorships and advertising program scandal that developed during the term of former Liberal Party...

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin signed a mine safety bill Thursday S. 247 requiring mines to provide wireless emergency communicators, tracking devices and extra air supplies to their miners. The West Virginia Legislature [official...

Khalil Dulaimi, chief defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Thursday following up on earlier defense statements that the ousted Iraqi leader intends "very soon" to sue US President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense...

US Attorney McGregor Scott of the Eastern District of California has announced the indictments of three people for ecoterrorism on federal charges of conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage property. The three defendants,...

The European Parliament , which has launched an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland, said...

Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , requested political asylum in the US Wednesday after being detained at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC. US Ambassador to Chile...

Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, was convicted Wednesday on six of seven criminal counts , including acting as an...