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...

Prominent humanitarian aid groups are meeting Friday with International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, currently investigating war crimes in Darfur . The unusual meeting was called by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...

The US Department of Defense has awarded Kellogg Brown and Root Services , the engineering and construction arm of Halliburton , the contract to build a planned $30 million permanent detention facility...

Taiwan's Supreme Court Friday rejected an opposition appeal to overturn the result of a disputed 2004 presidential election won by Chen Shui-Bian in a close race. In the March election Chen defeated Nationalist Party candidate Lien Chen...

Smelt, et al. v. County of Orange, et al., United States District Court for the Central District of California, Judge Gary Taylor, June 16, 2005 [ruling that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress does not violate the...