The International Criminal Court announced Tuesday that construction on 12 holding cells has been completed, and the world's first general international war crimes court is ready to use them to detain leaders of the...

An Oregon chapter of the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that the National Security Agency had illegally wiretapping several conversations between the charity and its attorneys. The complaint alleges...

Britain's High Court Tuesday blocked a four week suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone ordered by a case tribunal of the Adjudication Panel for England last week for bringing his...

The Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred a ruling on petitions brought against the state of emergency declared by President Gloria Arroyo last week. Arroyo, who today said the decree...

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee holding a second hearing Tuesday on the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program appeared frustrated by the lack of information released by the Bush administration. Senator Patrick...

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new rule that lowers the acceptable level of hexavalent chromium that can be present in a workplace....

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Randall v. Sorrell to decide whether Vermont's Act 64 campaign law , which places strict caps on campaign contributions and spending,...

The UK House of Lords Tuesday voted by a margin of 160-156 to remove references to the "glorification" of terrorism from the Terrorism Bill , proposed after the London bombings last...

The 12th General Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) ended Tuesday with members of Arab states calling on the United Nations to adopt a resolution which bans offenses against religion, including Islam....

Algerian Islamist Rachid Ramda has gone on trial in France for his alleged role in several deadly bomb attacks in Paris in 1995. Ramda was arrested in Britain in 1995, but delayed his extradition ten...