Former Qwest Communications International CFO Robin Szeliga was charged with insider trading Thursday based on accusations that she improperly earned $410,000 on a stock sale. Szeliga reached a plea agreement and a change-of-plea hearing has...

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the city of Seattle had the right to block city streets during violent protests against the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in the city. The...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has announced a halt to the current nationwide police crackdown against illegal and black market merchants and unauthorized dwellings that has allegedly resulted in the eviction and/or...

A New York state judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by Cablevision alleging illegal activities in the sale of land by the Manhattan Transportation Agency to the New York Jets football team earmarked for a proposed...

A US District Judge in Connecticut has ruled that Gillette's claims that its multi-blade M3Power razor lifts hair for a closer shave are "unsubstantiated and inaccurate," granting competitor Schick a preliminary injunction prohibiting television...

Israeli police have detained a group of around 20 young neo-Nazis who originally immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The group was discovered after police last month arrested one of the young men , a soldier...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Thursday pushed for Austria to prosecute a suspected Nazi war criminal who recently fled Zagreb, Croatia for the southern Austrian town of Klagenfurt. Milivoj Asner, 92, fled Croatia last year [Simon Wiesenthal...

Serbian officials announced Thursday that eight former Serb paramilitary soldiers have been arrested after a video showing them killing six Bosnian Muslim youths in Srebrenica was viewed at the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news...

US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez called illegal copying of American products the top trade issue between the US and China Thursday at the start of his first official trip to China. In April, the US put...

Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Thursday that she would call a national convention in 2006 to change the constitution and form of government of the Philippines from an American-style system with a president and bicameral...