Voters in Ireland have approved the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance aimed at improving fiscal discipline and promoting greater financial information disclosure between EU member states, according to official results Friday. In a national referendum that...

The Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , Irina Bokova , on Friday condemned the increasing number of murders of journalists in Pakistan and urged the government to investigate the crimes....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged the government of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to ensure justice for the victims of the recently increasing...

The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of several inmates over solitary confinement policies at a California prison Security Housing Unit (SHU). The defendants are California Governor Jerry Brown, the Secretary...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled on Thursday in favor of Google in the case of Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc. . Judge...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday granted class action status to numerous authors suing Google over its book-scanning initiative ....

Ecuadorian plaintiffs seeking to collect on a judgment against Chevron Corp over Amazon pollution on Wednesday filed a collection action in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice . The pollution was originally...

SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. agreed on Thursday to a $21 million settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for discrimination in the pricing of mortgage loans. DOJ had filed a suit against the...

Blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng urged the US on Thursday to "try harder" to promote the rule of law in China . Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) ,...

Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday rejected the prosecution's application for an arrest warrant against Sylvestre Mudacumura , a field commander in the Democratic Forces...