ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A teacher went on trial Wednesday after publicly claiming that she was pressured to...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A senior judge was sworn in Wednesday to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as it...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Politicians in the tiny nation of Guinea-Bissau say they've signed a deal that would...

BEIRUT (AP) — In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed Wednesday that his regime...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is showing renewed interest in reviving its stalled bid to join the European Union, now...

The controversial natural gas extraction process known as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” for short,...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hopes that the U.S. housing market is starting to recover sent stocks edging higher on Wall Street. ...

CASARES, Spain (AP) — Deprived of his clubs and sleep following an emergency landing en route to Spain, Brandt...

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta named a new education minister on Wednesday after his...

Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first...

PHOENIX (AP) — Police investigating the abduction of 6-year-old Isabel Mercedes Celis have scoured her Tucson, Ariz....

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police dispersed a protest camp in central Moscow that had become a rallying point for President...

LONDON (AP) — The shockwaves from Greece's failure to form a coalition government continued to reverberate around...

The indictment against Ratko Mladic — who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands...

LONDON (AP) — A father of 17 who lost six children in an arson attack on his central England home described...

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - On the face of it, Universal Music Group's bid to buy a big chunk of EMI stands to make...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says that the European Union can send experts to assess both...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's president convened the crisis-struck country's political leaders once more Wednesday, this...

PARIS (AP) — Europe's human rights court is hearing the case of a German citizen who says the CIA illegally whisked...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's president is to convene the crisis-struck country's political leaders once more, this...

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is to address judges personally during the...

BEIJING (AP) — China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations...

MILAN (AP) — For the Italian entrepreneur whose business and marriage were falling apart, a tax bill was the last...

BEIJING (AP) — A Shanghai lawyer says he is trying to visit the jailed nephew of dissident Chen Guangcheng, who...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential panel is calling for an 80 percent reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons and an...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former Mexican law enforcement official who worked closely with U.S. authorities in the drug war pleaded...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto the House Armed Service Committee's version of next year's...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by...

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande agreed Tuesday to spend the coming...

BERLIN (AP) — A senior lawmaker with Chancellor Angela Merkel's party said Tuesday that Germany is willing to...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece headed into a new month of political uncertainty after power-sharing talks collapsed...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time in less than two weeks, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng (chehn gwahng-chung)...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest...

PARIS (AP) — Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France's president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours...

BERLIN (AP) — France's new President Francois Hollande has arrived in Berlin for a keenly anticipated first meeting...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That...

Remember the children's game Telephone? One kid whispers something in another kid's ear, the second kid turns around...

PARIS (AP) — Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France's president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is headed for another month of political paralysis ahead of new elections in mid-June,...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia,...

LONDON (AP) — A British judge has sentenced a Bangladeshi man to 15 years in prison for paying young girls for sex...

Thumbnail sketches of the eight female and four male jurors who will decide whether pitcher Roger Clemens lied to Congress...

LONDON (AP) — Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air...

Chrysler recently released a defective product recall that could affect thousands of Pennsylvania drivers. The...

A recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an interesting letter detailing new findings of a...

Traumatic injury after car accidents or falls demand immediate medical attention. A recent study shows that those...

The disheveled trench coat actor Humphrey Bogart wore in the fog-clouded last scenes of the 1942 movie "Casablanca"...

Managing Partner, Louis Cairo, and partner, Lawrence Ruder, resolved the lawsuit against Alltown Bus Company and...

At first glance, this California couple seems to be living the American dream. They have been married more than 30...

Paternity testing is a major aspect of many family law cases in Missouri. Sometimes these cases involve a child...

The process of dividing up possessions can be a difficult aspect in any divorce. Items that couples have shared for...

The woman went to the plastic surgeon for liposuction on her hips, thighs, arms and stomach. The surgeon, who is now...

Quite often, people make sacrifices and work hard to benefit their loved ones. This is the reason why so many people...

Working on construction projects can be dangerous. There are potential hazards everywhere, particularly when working...

If asked to summarize the current state of immigration from Mexico to the United States -- including employment-related...

Americans for a Fair Estate Tax (AFET) wrote March 29 to all members of Congress asking them to support the Sensible...

We have all heard the horror stories of debtor's prison years ago in England, and even dating back to earlier times. ...

Federal law enforcement officials have put the clamp on an alleged drug trafficking group that ran through the...

Though far from the Illinois borders, drug trafficking crimes taking place near the border of the United States and...

No matter what laws are passed, the matter of illegal immigrants holding jobs in the U.S. will always spark...

After fully completing court-imposed sanctions, the penalty for even a relatively minor criminal offense can still...

The town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, must allow FXP LLC, a real estate affiliate of the Kraft Group, to speak at a town...

In the first resolution over cases involving Yasmin birth-control pills, Bayer, Germany's largest drug manufacturer will...

On Friday, March 30, a devastating car/multi-motorcycle accident took place, leaving one woman and one man dead, as...

The federal government has been investigating an alleged gun buying conspiracy in Arizona, and another suspected...

A California doctoral student who is also an undocumented immigrant recently published a free e-book giving advice...

Months after Amy Winehouse died unexpectedly, her multi-million dollar estate has been settled. Because the British...

The SEC's complaint alleged that between July 2008 and June 2010, Dachman raised at least $3,594,709 from investors in...

Developing and implementing a child custody plan can be challenging. Parents need to resolve whether one parent will...

Authorities say that late last night, nine suspected illegal immigrants from Mexico died in a rollover car accident...

A lot is at stake in a divorce settlement. This is especially true where the couple has substantial assets to divide.

Every month, the U.S. State Department releases its Visa Bulletin, which outlines the wait times for various visas,...

Here in Texas, and across the United States, no-fault divorce is the norm. For those unfamiliar with the concept, a...

In the United States, and Massachusetts specifically, the disinterest in legal custody of one's child because of a...

Texas, along with every other state in the U.S. , now allows no-fault divorces. That essentially means that divorcing...

Boston Municipal Court Judge Raymond G. Dougan asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last Monday to prevent the...

The Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney's office issued a joint warning against the use of...

Local South Carolina drivers are not the only ones susceptible to being pulled over by police and issued a speeding...

Many fans were shocked when international swimsuit model Simone Farrow was arrested last month on drug charges. ...

Most people know former NBA great Dennis Rodman for his patented brand of hard-nosed basketball, his flamboyant...

There is no divorce without marriage. There is no legal marriage if a partner is already wed to someone else, even if...

After two British surgeons released studies predicting that 32 to 49% of patients implanted with the recalled DePuy ASRTM...

On Thursday, an 18-year-old Western Hockey League player received his sentence of probation and community service...

An ongoing series of columns on KCET.org is intended to shed light on various laws and regulations that have had a...

At least one resident of Augusta, Georgia, is among the 19 people nationwide arrested on federal charges for alleged...

A man tied to a drug cartel has pleaded guilty to drug distribution charges. The man, who is the nephew of a former...

There is generally a lot of paperwork involved when filing for both marriage and divorce. And if you run into any...

Major auto manufacturers like selling cars, not recalling them, but U.S. federal law requiring them to report...

Students from San Francisco's Lowell High School recently won the regional Constitutional Rights Foundation Mock...

In Alabama, when we receive a dose of medicine from a physician, we trust that the physician knows that what is...

It was an emotional day for some 8,000 California residents, as they officially became citizens of the United States...

Should an immigrant father who was deported for entering the United States illegally be stripped of his parental...