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Basque premier on trial in Spain for meeting with pro-ETA party
 The trial of the prime minister of Spain's semi-autonomous Basque region began Thursday on charges of having met with the illegal Batasuna party which is regarded as the political wing of the militant separatist group ETA. Juan Jose Ibarretxe was the first Basque prime minister to be tried on criminal charges. Ibarretxe arrived in...

Basque premier on trial in Spain for meeting with pro-ETA party

School ordered to pay 30,000 euros in damages in bullying case
 A Spanish court has ordered a school to pay 30,000 euros (40,500 dollars) in damages to the family of a pupil who was bullied by his fellows, the highest such damages ever awarded in Spain, the victim's father and lawyers said Wednesday. Part of the evidence was based on a video showing pupils mocking and hitting their 10-year-old...

School ordered to pay 30,000 euros in damages in bullying case

Russian accused of arms dealing says he is a harmless businessman
A Russian man described as a major international arms dealer told a Thai court Monday that he was a harmless businessman who posed no threat to anyone. The court heard testimony that Viktor Bout, the model for Nicolas Cage's arms dealer in the 2005 film Lord of War, was caught in a sting in Thailand set up by US undercover agents...

Russian accused of arms dealing says he is a harmless businessman

Croatian criminals can choose their prisons - for a price
Croatia's efforts to deal with corruption in prisons suffered a hard blow Wednesday after a local daily published a price list of "services" provided in jails. Croatian daily Slobodna Dalmacija reported, quoting "prison sources" that for a certain price, prisoners in Croatian jails can move to a minimal security...

Croatian criminals can choose their prisons - for a price

Afghan youth silent at sister-killing trial in GermanyBy Jean-Baptiste
 An Afghan-born youth declined to testify Tuesday at his trial for the murder of his own sister in Germany. The May 15 stabbing death of Morsal O, 16, in Hamburg attracted enormous attention at a time when Germans were concerned at a rash of "honour killings" by immigrants from archaic central Asian societies. The term...

Afghan youth silent at sister-killing trial in GermanyBy Jean-Baptiste

Madonna single again after low-profile divorce
 US pop queen Madonna was probably still asleep in Philadelphia early Friday after entertaining fans with her raunchy Sticky & Sweet tour the night before when a district judge in London granted the decree confirming that her eight-year marriage with Guy Ritchie was over. The sober proceedings, listed as Ciccione M L v Ritchie G S...

Madonna single again after low-profile divorce

Madonna and Guy Ritchie end marriage in "quickie" divorce
 US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie ended their eight-year marriage in a low-key "quickie" divorce in London Friday following a private settlement. The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the High Court's family division. It lasted just a few minutes and was heard...

Madonna and Guy Ritchie end marriage in "quickie" divorce

"Quickie" divorce granted for Madonna and Guy Ritchie
US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a "quickie" divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday. The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes. High-profile...

"Quickie" divorce granted for Madonna and Guy Ritchie

Spain may not investigate Franco's abuses, daily says
Spanish judicial experts expect no major new investigations into alleged human rights abuses during the 1936-39 civil war and General Francisco Franco's ensuing 36-year dictatorship, the daily El Pais said Thursday. High-profile judge Baltasar Garzon's decision to drop the first such inquiry on Tuesday was described as a big blow by...

Spain may not investigate Franco's abuses, daily says

Russian court rules Politkovskaya trial not open to public
A Russian court ruled Wednesday to bar the media and public from the trial of three men charged with the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The judge at the Moscow's Military Court reversed his decision to make the trial open to the public after the jury refused to hear the case in front of the press. "This...

Russian court rules Politkovskaya trial not open to public

Russian court rules Politkovskaya trial open to public
 A Russian military court will allow public and media access to the trial of three men charged over the murder investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, it ruled in a crucial first hearing Monday. Police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, stand accused of plotting the murder of...

Russian court rules Politkovskaya trial open to public

Alleged kingpin of Russian crime on trial in Munich
 The alleged kingpin of the main Russian organized-crime family in Germany's Bavaria state went on trial Friday. Lawyers for the alleged mobsters showered the court with motions to stop the trial. Security at the Munich courthouse was strict. The defendant, 39, was indicted with running a criminal organization. Two alleged mafia...

Alleged kingpin of Russian crime on trial in Munich

Australian Holocaust denier freed by London court
 An Australian man of German extraction wanted in Germany on charges of denying the mass killing of Jews in the Holocaust has been freed on bail by a court in London following extradition proceedings. Westminster Magistrate's Court confirmed Thursday that a judge had thrown out an extradition bid from Germany for 64-year-old Gerald...

Australian Holocaust denier freed by London court

Resurgent left-wingers invade German stock exchange
Anti-globalization demonstrators invaded the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday, chanting, waving banners and scattering leaflets inside Germany's principal financial marketplace. "We are criticizing the dominance of financial markets," said Stephan Schilling, a member of the Attac Network coordinating circle, in Frankfurt...

Resurgent left-wingers invade German stock exchange

Retailers across Greece close down to protest reforms, higher tax
Retail shops across Greece closed down for several hours on Wednesday to protest the conservative government's reform policies which they say will force their businesses to go bankrupt. From the Greek capital Athens and the northern port city of Thessaloniki to hundreds of islands in the Aegean, small and medium clothing and food...

Retailers across Greece close down to protest reforms, higher tax

British estate agents gloomy as even the bankers are selling
It is the job of David Smith to keep on top of his box of index cards marked "serious buyers." But as tight loans and tumbling prices keep a stranglehold on Britain's once buoyant property market, hardly any of his clients bother to ring back. Estate agents like Smith are nostalgic about the days of the property boom when...

British estate agents gloomy as even the bankers are selling

US judge orders Boeing to release information on Madrid crash plane
A US judge has ordered aircraft maker Boeing to hand over all available technical information on the MD-82 jetliner that crashed in Madrid on August 20, killing 154 people, Spanish press reports said Tuesday. A US law firm has filed a complaint against Boeing and its subsidiary McDonnell Douglas in the name of 18 families that lost...

US judge orders Boeing to release information on Madrid crash plane

Hypo Real Estate chief pressed to quit
As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) came under pressure Monday from other banks and Berlin to sack its chief executive after HRE needed a vast bail-out. Questions about the German government assurance of an estimated 1 trillion euros (1.4 trillion...

Hypo Real Estate chief pressed to quit

Turkey bans biologist Richard Dawkins' website
Turkish internet users have been blocked via a court order from accessing the site of prominent British biologist Richard Dawkins after complaints from lawyers for Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar, the website of Turkish television station NTV reported on Wednesday. A court in Istanbul ordered that Turk Telekom block access to...

Turkey bans biologist Richard Dawkins' website

Dutch court rejects Srebrenica massacre appeal
The Dutch government cannot be held responsible for the failure of Dutch United Nations troops to protect the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces, a court ruled in The Hague Wednesday. The Mothers of Srebrenica, relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed while the enclave was under the formal...

Dutch court rejects Srebrenica massacre appeal

Serbian fugitive rejects plea offer by US prosecutors
Lawyers of a Serb wanted by United States for a near-fatal beating of a fellow student baulked at a plea offer by US prosecutors, describing it as "arrogance," the Vecernje Novosti daily said Wednesday. Miladin Kovacevic, 21, a student and basketball player, was offered to enter a guilty plea and receive a 12-year sentence...

Serbian fugitive rejects plea offer by US prosecutors

Laptop which may have been Karadzic's surfaces
Serbian authorities Tuesday said a laptop was found which may have belonged to Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb leader on a genocide trial at the United Nations tribunal. Karadzic was arrested in late July in Belgrade and extradited to the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He...

Laptop which may have been Karadzic's surfaces

British computer hacker faces extradition to US
A British computer hacker accused of breaking into top secret US defence and aerospace systems Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to the US where he could face a life sentence if convicted of sabotaging vital defence systems. Gary McKinnon, a 42-year-old computer and UFO enthusiast from Glasgow, Scotland, has been...

British computer hacker faces extradition to US

Scotland Yard Warned Against Princess Diana's Holiday
Britain's top police chiefs warned against Princess Diana going on a Mediterranean yachting holiday with Harrod's heir Dodi al-Fayed which ended with both being killed in a car crash in Paris at the end of August 1997, the inquest into their deaths was told in London Tuesday. Evidence presented to the inquest showed that Paul...

Scotland Yard Warned Against Princess Diana's Holiday

Sarkozy's Ex-Wife Tries to Block Publication of Book
A Paris court will issue a decision Friday on a demand by the ex-wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy to stop publication of a book in which she is quoted as calling him a philanderer, stingy and unworthy of being president, French radio reported Thursday. The book, titled simply Cecilia, was written by journalist Anna Biton, who...

Sarkozy's Ex-Wife Tries to Block Publication of Book

Italian Truck Drivers Continue Crippling Strike Despite Government Order
Italian Transport Minister Alessandro Bianchi summoned Wednesday unions representing striking truck drivers for talks as the stoppage continued despite a government order declaring it unlawful. Discussions between Bianchi and union representatives who have vowed to continue the strike through Friday was scheduled for 1330 GMT in...

Italian Truck Drivers Continue Crippling Strike Despite Government Order

Wife of "Missing Canoeist" Held on Fraud Charges
Britain's "back from the dead" canoeist John Darwin and his wife, now both in custody for faking his death for suspected insurance fraud, are longing to be reunited for their upcoming wedding anniversary, their lawyers said Tuesday. However, their wish looked far from being fulfilled as Anne Darwin, 55, was "tearful...

Wife of "Missing Canoeist" Held on Fraud Charges

Suspect in British Student's Murder Released
In a further twist Tuesday to the sex murder of a British woman in Perugia, Italy, Italian authorities released an initial suspect in the case just hours after another man allegedly linked to the killing was arrested in Germany. Lumumba "Patrick" Diya, 38, who was arrested on November 6, left a Perugia prison on Tuesday...

Suspect in British Student's Murder Released

Suspects in British Student's Murder Remain in Custody
An Italian magistrate on Friday remanded in custody a US student, her Italian boyfriend and a Congolese nightclub owner in connection with the murder of a British student, news reports said. The semi-naked body of Meredith Kercher, 21, was found on November 1 with a stab wound in the neck inside a flat she shared with...

Suspects in British Student's Murder Remain in Custody

Taylor Appears in Front of The Hague Court
Liberia’s former leader Charles G Taylor appeared for the first time in front of The Hague court on Tuesday, after two boycotts.Taylor refused to attend the first two sessions and face charges of war crimes because he was afraid of an inequitable trial and his lawyers need more time to prepare the defence.The former president is accused...

Taylor Appears in Front of The Hague Court

Taylor Ignores Appeal Made by ICC Once More
Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor defied once more the International Criminal Court and failed to appear in front of it on Monday.Taylor is accused of no more than 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity following his actions during the Sierra Leone civil war between 1991-2002, when he allegedly aided...

Taylor Ignores Appeal Made by ICC Once More

Ocalan Is Supported Even Behind Bars
Strasbourg was the meeting place for approximately 15,000 Kurds, as they protested against the jailing of the former leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan. Thousands of Kurds gathered in the French city of Strasbourg to support the former PKK leader and ask for a fair medical examination. To...

Ocalan Is Supported Even Behind Bars
 

Siemens' bribery flourished despite warnings
 A culture of bribery and impunity flourished at German corporate giant Siemens AG over the past decade despite repeated warnings from outside and inside the firm, according to US court documents. The details were released Monday as Siemens pleaded guilty in US District Court in Washington to a massive global corruption scandal...

Siemens' bribery flourished despite warnings

Four Marines Arrested in Killing of Another Fellow Marine
Four Marines were arrested after they had told investigators they were the ones who robbed and killed a fellow Marine and his wife last month. The four broke into the couple’s home, sexually assaulted the woman and searched for valuable objects. They were charged on Wednesday with the execution-style slayings of Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24,...

Four Marines Arrested in Killing of Another Fellow Marine

Rev. Sharpton Joined the Cause of the Man Sodomized by Police Officers
Rev. Al Sharpton joined Michael Mineo’s side in the scandal made public this week. Five police officers attacked Mineo and sodomized him with a walkie-talkie inside a subway station in Brooklyn. Still, the police couldn’t do anything because the officers deny the fact and some witnesses said that they had heard Mineo yelling for help,...

Rev. Sharpton Joined the Cause of the Man Sodomized by Police Officers

Life Prison for Mother Who Cooked Her Child
China Arnold, 28, killed her baby girl of only a month by burning her to death inside a microwave oven. The jury failed to reach a consensus when giving her the death penalty so they finally decided to sentence her to life in prison without parole.  The prosecutors stated that the woman had voluntarily put the little baby in the...

Life Prison for Mother Who Cooked Her Child

Hearing Postponed Before Inmate Execution Date
A judge moved a hearing for a condemned inmate because the former hearing was scheduled to be long after his execution. On Thursday, the judge stated that the lawyers of the inmate have to fight about the sentence while he is still alive. The inmate’s lawyers say that the execution sentence was wrong because the judge was having an...

Hearing Postponed Before Inmate Execution Date

Obama's persistence as suitor good for US
Michelle Obama stole the limelight and apparent affection of Democratic delegates Monday night, describing husband Barack Obama as a persistent suitor in their courting days who would carry the same kind of determination into the White House. The couple provided a rare and at times humourous glimpse into their private lives in one of...

Obama's persistence as suitor good for US

Junior Gotti Charged With Murder Conspiracy
On Tuesday morning, John “Junior” Gotti was arrested by the FBI on federal conspiracy charges, linking him to the murder of three men in New York, and possessing and trafficking cocaine, Bloomberg reported. 44-year-old Mr. Gotti, son of late Gambino crime family boss John J. Gotti, was ordered seized by a magistrate judge in Manhattan...

Junior Gotti Charged With Murder Conspiracy

US senator alleges China plans to spy on foreigners
A conservative US senator on Tuesday alleged that Chinese authorities plan to spy on foreign guests staying in hotels during the Olympics next month in Beijing. Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican from Kansas, said that lawyers representing international hotel chains have provided his office with documents ordering hotels to install...

US senator alleges China plans to spy on foreigners

Shooting At Tennessee Church: 2 Killed, 7 Injured
On Sunday morning, a man opened fire in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, killing 2 persons and injuring 7 others, Reuters reported.  The man entered the church at 10.18 a.m. and started shooting while 25 children were performing the play “Annie.” In line with WATE-TV, none of the kids got hurt. They ran away and three of them were found...

Shooting At Tennessee Church: 2 Killed, 7 Injured

Judge to Give Penitence to Woman Who Abused Her Adopted Children
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Judge to Give Penitence to Woman Who Abused Her Adopted Children

Former White House spokesman Tony Snow dead at 53
Former US government spokesman and Fox News commentator Tony Snow has died at the age 53 from colon cancer, US media reported Saturday. Snow served as Bush's third press secretary, from April 2006 to September 2007 following Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan. Used to earning more as a television commentator Snow took a pay cut...

Former White House spokesman Tony Snow dead at 53

State of Virginia Executes Its 101 Murderer
Kent Jermaine Jackson was executed by lethal injection on Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia. Jackson, 26, was convicted for the brutal killing of an elderly widow who lived in his apartment building. He died at 9:18 p.m. in Greensville Correctional Center, after eight years in prison. Both...

State of Virginia Executes Its 101 Murderer

Entwistle Convicted For The Murder Of His Wife And Daughter
Neil Entwistle, 29, was found guilty of the murder of his wife and 9-month-old daughter on Wednesday. Although he had been telling the same story for more than 2 years, the jury decided that his defense was not sufficiently strong to protect him from being convicted. According to Entwistle’s narration of the facts...

Entwistle Convicted For The Murder Of His Wife And Daughter

1st Black La. Supreme Court Justice Dies at 84
Former civil rights lawyer Revius Ortique Jr., who became the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84. It appears that Ortique died in Baton Rouge from complications with a stroke he suffered June 14, current Justice Kitty Kimball told the Associated Press. “I think he was one of the finest...

1st Black La. Supreme Court Justice Dies at 84

Haditha Massacre Charges Dropped Against Officer
A military judge at Camp Pendleton dismissed on Tuesday the case against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, the highest-ranking marine charged in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Col. Steven Folsom, the judge, made his ruling in response to a motion from defense attorneys charging that undue influence was exercised on the convening...

Haditha Massacre Charges Dropped Against Officer

Virginia Gov. Prevents Scheduled Execution
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine prevented Monday the execution of a convicted triple murderer for the third time and ordered the commutation of his death sentence, a day before the scheduled execution. He said that Percy Levar Walton is so profoundly mentally ill and impaired that he did not understand that he was about to die. In...

Virginia Gov. Prevents Scheduled Execution

9/11 Terrorists Acted Defiant Towards Tribunal
The trial of the five terrorists who are believed to be behind the November 11 attacks has not yet been set to start at Camp Justice. However, the suspects appeared in front of a war crime tribunal for the first time on Thursday. The new courtroom where the suspects will be judged is surrounded by razor wire fences. First came...

9/11 Terrorists Acted Defiant Towards Tribunal

September 11 Attacks' Suspects To Be On Trial
The alleged key suspect behind the attacks upon U.S. from 11 September 2001 will stay before the military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. The man who is considered al-Qaeda’s number three has refused to be defended by lawyers. He is actually trying to convince the court to sentence him to death, for he wants to become a martyr in the...

September 11 Attacks' Suspects To Be On Trial

British Resident Charged at Guantanamo Bay
The Pentagon says Binayam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national, is accused of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit terrorist attacks in the United States. He allegedly planned with al-Qaeda to use a radioactive “dirty bomb.” His lawyers say the case is based on evidence obtained through torture while he was in...

British Resident Charged at Guantanamo Bay

Wife of Former Governor Concludes Her Testimony
Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey tried to convince a judge that she is entitled to alimony, saying she is deeply in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital in Newark. She said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend have left her deeply in debt. The...

Wife of Former Governor Concludes Her Testimony

Wife of Former Governor Concludes Her Testimony
Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey tried to convince a judge that she was entitled to alimony, saying she was deeply in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital in Newark. She said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend had left her deeply in debt.The two...

Wife of Former Governor Concludes Her Testimony

Former Illinois Governor Lost Court Appeal
Washington, May 27 – Former Illinois Governor George Ryan and a co-defendant Larry Warner lost their chance to get out of prison, by losing a U.S. Supreme Court appeal. The main arguments brought in front of the justice were based on the fact that their constitutional rights had been violated when the panel of judges dismissed two...

Former Illinois Governor Lost Court Appeal

Witness Claims R. Kelly, Girl Were in Sex Tape
The trial of R. Kelly began with three days of explosive testimony. Facing up 15 years behind bars if convicted, the R&B star is charged with 14 counts of child pornography. Prosecutor Shauna Boliker said Kelly “created, staged, produced and starred” in the infamous video sex tape. Meanwhile, defense...

Witness Claims R. Kelly, Girl Were in Sex Tape

Mississippi Executes Convicted Killer
This case is the second US execution since the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on death penalty last month. Convicted murderer Earl Wesley Berry was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, state officials said. The man was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. local time at Parchman prison, said Tara Booth, spokeswoman...

Mississippi Executes Convicted Killer

US Delays Bin Laden’s Driver Trial
A military judge has postponed the trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, saying the Supreme Court should first rule on the rights of inmates to contest their detention and to see if that ruling affects the detainees’ cases. The Supreme Court is expected to rule by 30 June.Hamdan was to be the first prisoner tried...

US Delays Bin Laden’s Driver Trial

Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Face Capital Charges
Five men, accused of conspiring to kill thousands of people by financing, directing and organizing the 9/11 suicide missions, face death penalty charges at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against them for allegedly conspiring in the September 11...

Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Face Capital Charges

Judge Removes Top Legal Adviser from Guantanamo Case
A US military judge has disqualified the Pentagon’s top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions, one of the key figures in Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, The New York Times reported.Navy Capt. Keith Allred ruled that Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann of the Air Force Reserve was too closely allied with the prosecution. He is...

Judge Removes Top Legal Adviser from Guantanamo Case

FBI Raids Special Counsel’s Office
The FBI raided the office of U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch in an investigation of whether he obstructed justice by having his computer files erased, the Associated Press reports. According to FBI officials, computers and documents were seized from Scott Bloch’s office during the raid Tuesday morning. They also mentioned...

FBI Raids Special Counsel’s Office

Former Abu Ghraib Detainee Accuses US Contractors of Torture in Suit
Emad al-Janabi sues US military contractors, accusing them of torture, war crimes and civil conspiracy in a complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles. The former detainee in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq claims the employees of CACI International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc, two companies which provided services to the...

Former Abu Ghraib Detainee Accuses US Contractors of Torture in Suit

Most Virginia Tech Families Agree to Settlement
According to the settlement proposed by officials and accepted by most families involved in the Virginia Tech tragedy, each family will receive $100,000, as well as the chance to meet and discuss with the governor and the university’s officials about the shootings.Each family will also receive medical and counseling expenses, according...

Most Virginia Tech Families Agree to Settlement

Chief Judge Judith Kaye Sue State for Pay Raise
“How many other people’s salaries have been frozen for 10 years?” asked Bernard W. Nussbaum, the lawyer of the state’s chief judge, Judith S. Kaye, while standing on the steps outside State Supreme Court in Manhattan, according to the New York Times. Bernard W. Nussbaum, Kaye’s lawyer and a former counsel to the Clinton White House...

Chief Judge Judith Kaye Sue State for Pay Raise

Former Alabama Governor Approved for Release
A federal appeals court released Donald Siegelman, former governor of Alabama from prison, where he had spent nine months of a seven year sentence. He was convicted on six corruption counts and one count of obstruction of justice. His appeal was based on the fact that he was politically prosecuted.   The federal prosecutors have...

Former Alabama Governor Approved for Release

Clinton, McCain, Obama Passport Files Breached
Several contract workers and employees viewed the passport files of all three presidential candidates, the State Department said Friday. Officials are investigating the episodes but they claim the actions were not politically motivated and the workers were probably guided by “imprudent curiosity.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

Clinton, McCain, Obama Passport Files Breached

Justices Seem to Agree on Right to Own Guns
The U.S. capital’s tough gun control law was debated yesterday by lawyers who analyzed the meaning of the “right to bear arms”, which is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. A majority of justices from the Supreme Court seem to accept an interpretation of the Second Amendment that defends the...

Justices Seem to Agree on Right to Own Guns

New York Governor Spitzer Resigns over Sex Scandal
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has made official on Wednesday his intention to retire from the state’s top office after his alleged involvement as a client in a high-priced prostitution ring. The lawyer said that he doesn’t want to allow his "private failings to disrupt the public's work.""I am deeply sorry that I did not...

New York Governor Spitzer Resigns over Sex Scandal

USA Today Reporter Fined for Not Disclosing Sources
USA Today reporter Toni Locy has been found in contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton in Washington for refusing to disclose her sources in the anthrax attacks of 2001. Specifically, a federal judge late Friday night ordered the fines to coerce Locy to identify sources who named former Army scientist Steven Hatfill as...

USA Today Reporter Fined for Not Disclosing Sources

Renowned Pathologist Goes on Trial
Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, a nationally renowned forensic pathologist, who acted as a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, is set to appear in front of a Pittsburgh federal court. Wecht faces 41 criminal charges and could spend the rest of his life behind bars if he proves to be guilty.   Wecht, who resigned as Allegheny County...

Renowned Pathologist Goes on Trial

Bush Rejects Defense Spending Bill
President George W Bush on Friday rejected a law that would make it easier for victims of Saddam Hussein's former regime to sue Iraq for compensation, holding up a massive, overdue spending bill for the US military. Bush's veto announcement followed Iraqi government objections that the provisions, buried in a 2008 defence budget...

Bush Rejects Defense Spending Bill

CIA Deliberately Withheld Tapes From 9/11 Panel - Report
The two leaders of the US panel that investigated the 2001 terrorist attacks say that it appeared the CIA had intentionally withheld tapes of alleged torture of terrorism suspects to impede their work, according to a story Saturday in the New York Times. The comments to the newspaper by the two chairmen, Lee Hamilton and Thomas...

CIA Deliberately Withheld Tapes From 9/11 Panel - Report

Bush Faces Criticism Over Destroyed CIA Tapes
The Central Intelligence Agency revealed Friday that in 2005 it destroyed video tapes of officers subjecting two al- Qaeda terrorist suspects to harsh interrogation techniques. CIA chief Michael Hayden told President George W Bush about the destruction of the tapes Thursday and the White House was assisting the spy agency in an...

Bush Faces Criticism Over Destroyed CIA Tapes

Hearing Begins in Guatanamo Case
Lawyers for prisoners in the war on terrorism appeared before the US Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking the right for their clients to challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the federal court system. The cases, Boumediene versus Bush and al-Odah versus the United States, marked the third time in as many years...

Hearing Begins in Guatanamo Case

Love Triangle Ends With Apology In Court
It seems incredibly complicated to be an astronaut in love. The three-cornered NASA love story has reached a new stage: apologies. More specific, Lisa Nowak expressed her regret about what she has done to her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman. Even more specific, they were in court, Nowak under charges of attempted kidnapping,...

Love Triangle Ends With Apology In Court

Libby to Spend Thirty Months in Jail
After months of investigations and deliberations a US court sentenced Tuesday former chief of staff Lewis Libby to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice, perjury and false statements. The former assistant to US Vice President Dick Cheney for national security affairs received beside the heavy chastisement a fine of 250,000...

Libby to Spend Thirty Months in Jail

Guantanamo Detainee Is Cleared Of Charges
Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner has been cleared of murder and terrorism charges by a military judge that considered the Canadian’s case insoluble by the military commission, officials from the Pentagon reported on Monday. Omar Ahmed Khadr, by his full name, is a Canadian citizen that was detained in Afghanistan on July 27, 2002 by US...

Guantanamo Detainee Is Cleared Of Charges
 

New wave of arrests in Turkey of alleged coup plotters
Around 40 people were taken into custody Wednesday in the latest wave of arrests connected to a shadowy nationalist gang that prosecutors claim was conspiring to overthrow Turkey's moderate Islamic government, Turkish media reported. Those taken into custody on Wednesday included retired generals, former police officers, academics and...

New wave of arrests in Turkey of alleged coup plotters

Calls grow for China to free Charter '08 dissident
Leading international writers, scholars, lawyers and rights advocates on Tuesday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free the dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, who is believed to be facing subversion charges for organizing a charter for democratic reform in China. More than 150 leading US and European-based intellectuals, including...

Calls grow  for China to free Charter '08 dissident

Iraqi shoe-thrower "not being tortured"
 Montazer al-Zaidi, the TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush on Sunday, has not been tortured and has been well-treated during his detention, one of his lawyers said Thursday. "Al-Zaidi is in good health and was not tortured during his detention," one of his lawyers told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news...

Iraqi shoe-thrower "not being tortured"

Chinese dissident's wife welcomes international support
The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia welcomed international support for the couple on Wednesday, as the European Parliament prepared to award its top human rights prize to him in absentia. "It is not only for us, it is also for all Chinese human rights defenders," Zeng Jinyan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...

Chinese dissident's wife welcomes international support

Liu Xiaobo - one of China's most outspoken rights activists
 Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades. Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...

Liu Xiaobo - one of China's most outspoken rights activists

Myanmar journalist gets two years for covering cyclone protest
 A young female journalist who attempted to cover a protest by a group of Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis victims was sentenced to two years in prison Friday, legal sources confirmed. Eine Khaing Oo, 21, was arrested on June 10 when she tried to cover a rare protest in front of the head office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...

Myanmar journalist gets two years for covering cyclone protest

Bali bombers lose appeal against firing squad
Indonesia's top court on Tuesday rejected a request by three death-row Bali bombers to have thei