The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has upheld a contempt ruling against two reporters who refused to disclose their sources to investigators looking into the leak of an undercover CIA agent's name to the...

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has conceded that claims by Mahdouh Habib , a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, that he was tortured while held in Egypt may be true. Downer, who made the comments...

AP is reporting that defrocked Roman Catholic priest Paul Shanley has been sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison for repeatedly molesting a boy in the 1980s.11:35 AM ET - An AP report is now available....

Following up a Monday report in JURIST's Paper Chase, a spokesman for the Prince of Wales has disputed a report by BBC Panorama that Prince Charles' upcoming marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles is illegal. Four legal experts...

The UK government has informed at least two of the four British men recently released from Guantanamo Bay that they cannot obtain passports. An attorney for Martin Mubanga and Feroz Abbasi said that both...

Iraqi political parties have filed at least six challenges to the results of the Jan. 30 elections, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq reported Tuesday. The Commission has given parties until Wednesday to challenge the election results...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has refused to respond to charges by a former intelligence officer that the Australian government knew of abuses by coalition troops in Iraq, despite claims to the contrary. Rod Barton, formerly an...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that two British activists found guilty in the UK of libel against fast food chain McDonald's did not have a fair trial and were deprived of their...

International Committee of the Red Cross president Jakob Kellenberger met with President Bush Monday to discuss ICRC concerns about detainees at Guantanamo Bay . The Red Cross regularly visits the detainees...

The US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has said that former head of the UN Oil-for-Food program Benon Sevan made over $1 million from allocating oil from Saddam Hussein's...