New Haitian president Rene Preval said Wednesday that ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has a legal right to re-enter the country. In his first news conference since his victory in the February 2...
A Rhode Island jury Wednesday found three former lead paint manufacturers responsible for creating a public nuisance that had contaminated thousands of homes and continues to poison children. The jury found Sherwin Williams, NL Industries Inc. [corporate...
The Bush administration has indicated that journalists can be prosecuted for receiving or publishing classified information under the United States Espionage Act . US Department of Justice lawyers made the assertion in a January...
The Australian judicial inquiry looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime as part of the now-defunct...
British historian David Irving has said he will appeal the three-year sentence he received after pleading guilty Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust . Irving was charged in connection to two...
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced to death eleven members of Jund Allah, an Islam group linked to al Qaeda , after they were convicted of killing ten people in an attack...
Jacques Bernard, head of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council , has fled the country in fear of his life two weeks after heavily disputed elections returned President Rene Preval to office. Preval opponents threatened Bernard's...
Lawyers asked the UK law lords on Monday to allow anti-war activists convicted on trespassing charges related to protests of the Iraq war to argue in their defense that the war was illegal. Fourteen Greenpeace protesters were convicted...
The Japanese government is planning to put English translations of its business-related laws on the internet in order to avoid their misinterpretation by foreign companies. Right now there are no official translations, although unofficial private English translations of multiple...
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) , the world's largest general scientific society, has denounced legislation and policies that "undermine evolution" and "deprive students of the education they need to be...