Scotland Yard said Thursday that bombing suspect Hamdi Issac , also known as Hussain Osman, has been charged with attempted murder over the failed 21 July London bomb attacks . Issac was apprehended in Rome...

An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced the last of six Muslim militants accused in the 2004 suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta to 10 years in prison for aiding those who carried out...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 at a public meeting Wednesday to give small public companies an additional extra year to comply with requirements to file reports on the strength of their internal financial controls...

The office of the New Jersey Attorney General has announced that the state will oversee a county-by-county probe into allegations of election irregularities brought by Republicans. NJ Attorney General Peter Harvey said the...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Judge John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States by a vote of 13-5 with all Republican members voting for and five Democrats voting against....

More prisoners are on California's death row for murdering whites than for killing people of any other race, despite the fact that were more black and Hispanic murder victims during the same time period, according to a new study...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Thursday that it will combine the cases of nine Bosnian Serb military officers accused of participating in the Srebrenica massacre ...

Two US Army soldiers have been charged with prisoner abuse in an ongoing investigation into the deaths of two Afghan prisoners while in US custody, which has already led to charges being filed against 14 soldiers, the military said...

A appeals hearing for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was delayed again Thursday after his lawyer asked for more time to prepare, saying he had been unable to meet with Khodorkovsky in prison before...

France, Germany and Great Britain, the EU's three major powers, have decided to drop their support for a US-backed draft resolution calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report Iran's nuclear program to the UN...