Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay said Tuesday that the company's former CEO Andrew Fastow was to blame for the accounting fraud that led to the company's downfall and that his trust in Fastow was "fatally...

The debate over capital punishment in California has gained new momentum following the execution earlier this week of Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams . Both sides are wondering what...

A Tokyo High Court judge on Wednesday refused to overturn a lower court decision that denied compensation for unpaid wages for a group of South Koreans who were forced to work at a Japanese steel mill during WWII. Relatives...

The UN Security Council is considering a proposed resolution, offered by France at the request of Lebanon, that would widen the scope of the UN probe into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday convicted retired Rwandan army officer Lt. Col. Aloys Simba of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 25 years in prison...

The US Army has given preliminary approval to a new set of classified interrogation techniques which are likely to cause a roadblock in negotiations over Sen. John McCain's proposed amendment on detainee treatment . The interrogation techniques are...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday accused the international community of failing to live up to its obligations to help bring Saddam Hussein to justice, saying the "effective boycott of Saddam's trial...

The US House of Representatives is expected to pass a White House-backed bill Wednesday that would reauthorize sections of the USA Patriot Act , although the legislation may still face a...

US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday that more than 100 detainees had been abused in two Iraqi detention facilities, a figure considerably greater than the 21 or 26 people previously reported as...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the International Commission of Jurists has issued a report urging the Nepal government to revoke the recently approved media ordinance as contrary to the Nepalese Constitution ...