More than 50 years after Japan ended its Korean occupation at the close of World War II, many wounds have still not healed.
An Alameda County judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday preventing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from imposing unpaid furlough days on state workers.
Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail.
Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, Brazil’s second-largest airline company by market share, posted a second-quarter loss after costs rose and a decline in the real increased the value of its foreign-currency debt.
A Queensland judge has found the terms "nigger" and "sandnigger" are not offensive to a reasonable person.
When Julie Murphy first decided to sell lemonade, she just wanted a little money to buy some treats. The 7-year-old´s plans are a lot grander now.
Increasingly controversial rulings threaten to further erode the credibility of an institution founded on noble principles.
Decision to admit statements despite threats of torture dramatically strengthens prosecution´s case against Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay.
Internet giant Google is proposing new "net neutrality" legislation in America that would force web providers to treat all traffic equally – but not on wireless connections.
An Auckland scientist has been sentenced to four months´ community detention and 120 hours´ community work for giving false information to a biosecurity inspector about the illegal importation of a predatory insect.
Government report highlights vexed issue of implementation of European human rights judgments in domestic law
Peter Noorlander on the president, certain to be re-elected today, who has turned to censorship laws to maintain his rule.
Ten years after the Texas Board of Law Examiners found Kristofer Thomas Kastner did "not possess the present good moral character required for admission to the practice of law in Texas," a three-justice panel of Austin, Texas´ 3rd Court of Appeals on July 29 unanimously affirmed a lower court decision dismissing a suit Kastner had filed against the board and others.
The Obama administration, while deporting a record number of immigrants convicted of crimes, is sparing one group of illegal immigrants from expulsion: students who came to the United States without papers when they were children.
As the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor blended with a celebrity spectacle, two witnesses, one of them the actress Mia Farrow, challenged testimony last week by the supermodel Naomi Campbell about whether Mr. Taylor made her a gift of diamonds after a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela 13 years ago.
The U.S. economy as a whole lost 131,000 jobs in July, and 800 of them were in the legal trade, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Political turmoil paralyzing the Maldives deepened Monday after the attorney-general resigned in frustration over parliament´s refusal to appoint a new Supreme Court.
The government charged 14 people Thursday with supporting "a deadly pipeline" routing money and fighters to the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia.
More armed guards were visible early Monday morning near where two war crimes proceedings were set to begin for two terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
In a landmark court case in Hong Kong, a woman who used to be a man will fight for the right to marry her boyfriend.
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