Daniel Millis, a volunteer with the faith-based organization No More Deaths, was arrested in 2008 for littering. His crime: leaving bottles of drinking water on trails near the Arizona-Mexico border so immigrants walking through the desert would not die of thirst.
The state monopoly on gambling in Germany is ´unjustifiable´ and must be broken up at once, the European Union´s top court ruled on Wednesday. The court said the gambling laws were being applied inconsistently.
A Solomon Islands´ judge has thrown out evidence in a murder trial because investigating Australian Federal Police "forgot" basic procedures, including reading the suspect their rights.
Two people accused of trying to extort US$25 million ($34.5 million) from John Travolta after his son died are to walk free after a judge in the Bahamas dismissed the case against them, apparently at the actor´s request.
A town in Georgia is the latest municipality to pass a baggy pants ban into law, CNN reports.
Woman says she was shot twice by police with rubber bullets, and detained for about 30 hours.
Faulty cementing, a misread pressure test and an improperly maintained blowout preventer all contributed to the April 20 explosion that uncorked the worst oil spill in U.S. history, BP´s investigation of the disaster concluded Wednesday.
Sri Lanka´s Parliament on Wednesday passed a proposal to remove presidential term limits from the Constitution, paving the way for the popular president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to run for a third term and cement his grip on power.
A review of the UK´s extradition laws will consider whether the treaty with the US is "unbalanced", the home secretary has said.
A war has erupted in Brazil’s election campaign. Spurred by a growing disadvantage in voter surveys, the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) has launched a full-scale attack against the ruling Workers Party (PT), whose presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff is favored in the polls.
Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.
Canada´s Goldcorp Inc. says it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($3.42 billion).
The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.
All seven defendants in a long-running trial in Portugal have been found guilty of sexually abusing children in the care of a state-run home.
Brazilian magazine Exame reports that America’s favorite investor is headed to Brazil.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called a Swedish investigation into rape and molestation allegations against him a "legal circus".
Police have arrested a 28-year-old suspect on suspicion of stealing $41 million from the federal pension fund in an elaborate scheme that involved Cyprus bank accounts, 23 cell phone numbers and a travel regime that avoided the use of trains and planes.
In what officials say is the biggest food smuggling case in American history, US prosecutors have announced charges against 10 German executives for illegally importing tainted Chinese honey.
Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history.
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