London police Wednesday charged 23-year-old Ismael Abdurahman with withholding information about the failed July 21 bombing attacks on London's bus and subway systems. The charge alleges that Abdurahman "had information he knew or believed may be of...

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the political movement of former rebel leader turned vice president John Garang , called Wednesday for an international investigation into the helicopter crash that caused his death and ignited deadly...

Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler is under pressure to deny a US request to extradite Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery in a case that is likely to spark debate over the countries' diverging drug...

Media giant Time Warner Inc. announced Wednesday it is setting aside $3 billion in reserves to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders who claimed they lost money when the company's shares declined following a merger with AOL...

German Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily has said in an interview with a German newspaper that the people of Germany must consider introducing new laws allowing potentially dangerous people to...

The USDA Forest Service said Tuesday it hopes to salvage a Bush administration initiative to ease logging restrictions in the Northwest by correcting problems cited by federal judge Marsha Pechman. On Monday, Pechman struck down an administration...

US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts promised Tuesday to adhere to established rulings if given the opportunity to serve on the highest court. In his 84-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee ...

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Tuesday agreed to a $2.4 billion settlement over a class-action lawsuit with investors in collapsed energy giant Enron Corp. The settlement is the largest yet, beating the $2.2 billion settlement with...

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga asked Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide when the next presidential election should be, in an effort to counter increasingly strong opposition calls for a vote this year....

Hassan Moghaddas, an Iranian judge who tried a highly-publicized case involving dissident journalist Akbar Ganji , was killed in Tehran on Tuesday by a gunman on a motorcycle. Moghaddas was shot and killed in his car...