An Iraqi official said Tuesday that an independent panel established to investigate the alleged March 12 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the murder of her family at the hands of US soldiers in...

Eleven suspects charged in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean appeared in a UK court for the first time Tuesday. Eight defendants were remanded in...

Witness testimony began Tuesday in Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide and crimes against humanities charges in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation that led to the killings of as many as 180,000...

Legal papers belonging to Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks were among those seized by US investigators in a probe into the June suicides of three other Guantanamo inmates - a Yemeni and...

US v. Padilla, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, August 21, 2006 [finding that the charge of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim persons in a foreign country is "multiplicitous" and violates the Double Jeopardy Clause...

US District Judge Marcia Cooke has dismissed one of the charges brought against terror suspect Jose Padilla and his two co-defendants, ruling that the charge is "multiplicitous" and violates the Double Jeopardy Clause ...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday called on all states to standardize their criminal statutes dealing with sexual predators during a speech given at the 18th Annual Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas....

A Russian court on Monday rejected the case against former Russian Atomic Minister Yevgeny Adamov , citing factual errors in court filings, and told prosecutors to develop the case further before presenting it to the...

The Congolese Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) , charged with overseeing the July presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, released the provisional results of the election on Monday, and announced that...

A judge in Missouri heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit challenging a Missouri law requiring voters to show photo identification before being permitted to vote. The class-action lawsuit seeking a...