Several Iraqi citizens sued a leading European bank and Australia's wheat exporting agency in New York federal court Friday for corporate misconduct facilitating the corruption of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program which bilked Iraqis out of humanitarian...

Sixteen Saudis and a Bangladeshi man repatriated from Guantanamo Bay earlier this week to their home countries are being detained by their governments. Saudi Arabian authorities say they are holding their nationals in order to investigate...

Three Texas landlords filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of strict measures against illegal immigrants passed last month in their Dallas suburb . The defendants in the federal court action are the city...

In re: The Exxon Valdez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 22, 2006 [ruling reducing by $2 billion a 1994 damages award against ExxonMobil corporation in respect of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which caused...

Heiser v. Islamic Republic of Iran, US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 22, 2006 [ruling that Iran is liable to pay $254 million in damages and compensation to families of American victims of a 1996 terrorist attack...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday reduced by $2 billion a 1994 damages award against ExxonMobil corporation in respect of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which caused a major Alaska oil spill [Anchorage...

A US federal judge ruled Friday that Iran is liable to pay $254 million in damages and compensation to families of American victims of a 1996 terrorist attack it helped finance on Khobar Towers , a...

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday condemned proposed Italian legislation that would recognize civil unions for unmarried couples, including same-sex couples. The Pope, speaking in a Christmas address to the Rome clergy, said...

Italian prosecutors have begun an investigation into the death of Piergiorgio Welby , a man who suffered from muscular dystrophy and sought the right to die by euthanasia. Welby's quest to die became a nation-wide debate after...

Human rights abuses have worsened in countries around Asia due to authoritarian developments in "malfunctioning" democracies, according to a report by the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) released Thursday....