US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales late Monday concluded a day of testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration's controversial domestic surveillance program . Although Gonzales maintained that...

The US Senate Monday began debate of controversial legislation that would create a privately-funded trust to compensate victims of asbestos exposure and shield companies from further liability. Under the Fairness in Asbestos...

Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said Monday that the resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Directors to refer Iran to the UN Security Council was a "hasty...

British judge Rosalyn Higgins , a highly-respected legal scholar and international lawyer, was elected president of International Court of Justice (ICJ) Monday, becoming the first woman to serve in that role. Higgins, the only...

The retrial of the first federal lawsuit against the manufacturers of Vioxx began Monday in New Orleans with jury selection. The case first went to trial last year, but was declared a mistrial in December...

The defense team in the Saddam Hussein trial said Monday that the proceedings against the deposed Iraqi dictator in the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal - have been fixed...

At least five people protesting the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish and other European papers were killed in Afghanistan Monday when security forces and police opened fire on demonstrators as the cartoons...

A Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Monday that the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority violated the constitutional separation of church and state when it seized a woman's home to help Hope Partnership for Education , a religious group, build...

Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor on Monday told the Federation Council , the upper house of parliament, that approximately 6,000 people were abused by Russian military personnel last year and 2,600 soldiers were convicted of abusing other soldiers [JURIST...

Zacarias Moussaoui was escorted from a Virginia courtroom Monday after an argument with US District Judge Leonie Brinkema during the first few minutes of jury selection in his sentencing trial . Moussaoui declared...