Japanese Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie , 34, was convicted of securities law violations on Friday and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Horie, whose rebellious style made him a media celebrity , received a...
A bill to repeal the Maryland death penalty failed in the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Thursday when the committee members tied in a 5-5 vote. Swing vote Sen. Alex X. Mooney (R) [official...
Italy has asked the Italian Constitutional Court to cancel the indictments of 34 American and Italian intelligence officials in connection with the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian cleric...
The Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan Friday removed all restrictions on the liberty of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry , suspended for misconduct last week by President Pervez Musharraf ....
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled en banc Thursday that Robert Comer, an inmate on death row, "is competent to waive further proceedings... has chosen to do so voluntarily," paving the...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed testified Saturday at a military status hearing at Guantanamo Bay that he personally "decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in Karachi," according to...
A French court convicted a doctor for the poisoning death of a terminally ill cancer patient Thursday. Dr. Laurence Tramois was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence for prescribing a fatal dose of potassium chloride that resulted in...
The Japanese government has found no evidence that so-called Korean and Chinese "comfort women" were forced into sexual slavery during World War II, according to a cabinet statement provided to a Japanese lawmaker Friday....
The Chinese National People's Congress on Friday approved a landmark law protecting private property by a 2799-52 vote. Chinese lawmakers have been considering the bill for over 13 years, and the final...
International police organization Interpol Thursday agreed to issue arrest notices for six men thought to be connected with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires ...