U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on a previously unannounced visit.
Nintendo´s hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company.
In an effort to cut costs, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said it will close 92 of its more than 700 company-owned stores by the end of the year.
Declining to carve out a religious exemption to civil rights laws, the California Supreme Court has ruled that the constitutional rights of religious freedom and free speech do not exempt doctors from state anti-discrimination laws.
New York City has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to protesters arrested during a 2003 rally against the Iraq war who said their civil rights had been violated, lawyers for both sides said on Tuesday.
Russian officials on Monday confirmed that the nation will file a complaint against Georgia with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and said that the government is considering filing another complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
US Senate Judiciary Committee leaders Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Monday, calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to postpone implementation of new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) guidelines until Congress has had a chance to review the changes.
Saying corporal punishment disproportionately targets minority students and creates a "violent and degrading school environment," two groups want federal and state lawmakers to ban it.
A federal appeals court yesterday threw out a Bush administration rule that blocked states from stricter monitoring of air pollution from oil refineries and power plants. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that a 2006 rule barring states from supplementing Environmental Protection Agency monitoring standards was invalid.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Poland´s foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, Wednesday signed a formal agreement to base U.S. ballistic missile interceptors in the country.
With food prices rising, one of India´s poorest states is considering adding rat meat to the menus of state-run canteens, a move officials in Bihar say could help provide cheap protein for the state´s 80 million people, most of whom live off the land as poor sharecroppers or subsistence farmers.
Eighteen California hospitals were fined for placing patients in serious jeopardy, the state Department of Public Health announced on Monday. It is the fourth time the department has disciplined hospitals since a state law went into effect in 2007 authorizing the agency to fine them for placing patients’ lives at risk.
The president of Human Rights Watch, mediation advisors, and other NGO leaders have recently begun to more openly criticize prosecutorial and other judgments made by International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
US competition authorities have demanded extra details from Belgian-Brazilian brewer InBev regarding its planned takeover of US rival Anheuser-Busch, the Belgium-based company said.
A group of more than 100 U.S. college and university presidents say the drinking age of 21 years isn´t working and has led to a culture of binge drinking.
Richard Scott, head of the Canadian Judicial Council conduct committee, warned on Sunday that judges should exercise caution in agreeing to head up extra-judicial public inquiries designed to address politically controversial issues.
The Yemeni Parliament on Monday voted against a bill which would have amended the country´s electoral laws by restricting government officials from influencing the ballot.
Georgian authorities have blocked most access to Russian news broadcasters and websites since the outbreak of the conflict with Moscow.
GraphOn Corporation a leading worldwide developer of server-based application publishing and Web-enabling software solutions, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. alleging infringement of four GraphOn patents.
Officials of Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) said Sunday that the government has sentenced five of its members to prison for participating in a march commemorating the mass student protests against the junta held on August 8, 1988.
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