MSNBC is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case concerning the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act .The Bush administration in September appealed to the Supreme...

New York Gov. George Pataki and Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich have threatened to take legal steps to block an Arab company's takeover of operations in several major US ports. The governors cite security concerns associated with the...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudan has issued a formal protest to the UN Envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk over his lobbying for a UN peacekeeping force in the Darfur region , and has rejected the growing call...

The execution of Michael Angelo Morales , scheduled to take place just after midnight Tuesday morning, was delayed after the two anesthesiologists on hand to ensure that Morales would not suffer excessive pain during the process refused to...

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to sign an agreement with the Italian Culture Ministry in Rome Tuesday under which the museum will return several pieces of looted Hellenistic art in exchange...

Lawyers asked the UK law lords on Monday to allow anti-war activists convicted on trespassing charges related to protests of the Iraq war to argue in their defense that the war was illegal. Fourteen Greenpeace protesters were convicted...

Echoing views expressed by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week, US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and one-time top Bush aide Karen Hughes Monday defended US practices at Guantanamo...

An Argentine official said Monday that Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Milan Lukic has been handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and is now headed to The...

The Danish ambassador to Saudi Arabia has said that Denmark will take steps to ban religious slander in accordance with Danish and European laws, according to reports Monday. As a result of the publication of caricatures of the Prophet...

Ayman Nour , the Egyptian opposition leader jailed for forgery after his unsuccessful campaign last year, has filed an appeal and requested a suspension of his five-year sentence until the appeals court can rule on the...