Voters in the Maldives went to the polls Saturday to elect a parliament three weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunami delayed voting. The small island chain has been under the control of Asia's longest serving ruler,...

The International Organization for Migration which runs the Iraq Out-of-Country Voting Program announced Saturday that it has extended by two full days the registration period for overseas absentee voting in Iraq ....

At a court martial that resumed Friday at a British military base in Osnabrueck Germany after the defense requested a temporary halt , a lawyer for one of three British soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi detainees accused their...

The second largest bank in the nation, JP Morgan Chase & Co. , has publicly disclosed that two of its predecessor banks had received thousands of slaves as collateral prior to the Civil War. JP Morgan offered a...

Iraq's interim defense minister said Friday that the government would arrest prominent Iraqi National Congress party leader Ahmad Chalabi after the end of the Muslim festival of Eid on Sunday for maligning him and the...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that it will offer large "factory-style" farms an exemption from Clean Air Act fines if, in return, the farms monitor air quality and submit those figures to the government....

US Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff Friday approved a 90-day extension of the exclusivity period covering the bankruptcy reorganization plan of UAL Corporation, parent of United Airlines . During the exclusivity period, no other parties may submit...

Denmark's High Court ruled Friday that Danish supermarket chain Dansk Supermarked Group has the right to ban employees from wearing religious headscarves, saying that the legislature "has weighed the right of an employer to demand a uniform...

The US Commission on Civil Rights , newly reconstituted with the addition of a new Republican chairman and another Republican appointee , has removed from its website a controversial staff report highly critical of the civil...

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday that he would be willing to call a national election over the issue of same-sex marriage, the subject of pending legislation in the Canadian House of Commons where Martin presides...