The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held hearings Tuesday on California's request for a waiver of preemption for its greenhouse gas emission standards for new cars. The standards would require car manufacturers to cut emissions...

Thousands of farmers in southwestern China reportedly rioted over the weekend due to efforts by local government officials to more strictly enforce China's "One Child Policy" . A local resident told AP said that the government had imposed fines...

Lawyers for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday threatened to bring a lawsuit against a committee investigating Thaksin's alleged corruption if it releases details of a report into a controversial land purchase [Wikipedia...

Chung Mong-koo , chairman of Hyundai Motors Group , pressed an appeal of his February 5 conviction for embezzlement and bribery Tuesday by submitting a written "pledge" to the Seoul High Court, hoping to obtain...

Members of the committee responsible for developing reforms to Iraq's constitution said Tuesday that, after six months of negotiations, they have been unable to reach any sort of agreement. The panel made up of Shiites, Sunnis,...

Moroccan police arrested three leading human rights activists and attempted to arrest three others in the disputed Western Sahara region Sunday amid a crackdown before scheduled talks with pro-independence factions next month. Brahim...

A Manhattan federal jury Monday convicted Dr. Rafik Abdus Sabir, a US citizen with a medical practice based in Florida, of conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda and attempting to provide that support. Sabir was...

A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Monday that Hicks does not plan to challenge the legality of any control order imposed after his release from prison in Australia. David...

The California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District has ruled that the state may continue to transfer prisoners out-of-state while litigation proceeds over the challenged program to deal with California's prison overcrowding ....

The UN Committee Against Torture Monday urged Poland to disclose details regarding a parliamentary investigation into the presence of secret CIA prisons in the country on Monday, expressing concern that Poland [JURIST...