Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has asked the Angolan Supreme Court to rule on whether portions of the country's new election laws passed in May are constitutional . Dos Santos has not yet specified...

Croatia on Friday arrested 10 people suspected of committing war crimes against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. The arrests were made in eastern Croatia, an area with a large ethnic Serb population and where several former members of the...

To head off a revolt among members of his government over what are increasingly seen as unduly-harsh immigration laws, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has loosened rules for mandatory detention of immigrants who enter the country without...

A private contractor for Zapata Engineering Peter Ginter - himself an ex-Marine with eight years service - has claimed he was abused by US military personnel while detained for three days. Gintner is the second to speak...

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad , whose 22 years in office until 2003 made him one of Asia's longest-serving political leaders, Friday urged transparency and fairness in the trial of Saddam Hussein while announcing the launch of...

Detroit high school student Andrew Osantowski has been convicted under a post 9/11 Michigan state anti-terror law of two counts of threatening terrorism against fellow students at his Chippewa Valley High School . The case could be the...

The US Army Thursday charged staff sergeant Alberto B. Martinez of the New York National Guard 42nd Infantry with the murders of his two commanding officers at an army base near Baghdad. An initial military investigation concluded...

Sweden, Finland and Portugal have joined Britain, Denmark, Ireland and the Czech Republic in postponing their ratifications of the EU constitution after European heads of governent Thursday agreed to extend the ratification deadline into 2007....

In a rare federal case involving gay marriage, a US District Court judge on Thursday ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress does not violate the Constitution. Judge Gary Taylor declined to rule on...

Senate Democrats refused a Republican compromise over the nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN Thursday, demanding more information than GOP leadership offered on his pre-Iraq war assessments of several countries' weapons programs. Democrats...