Some of you might remember a funny little post published in January about jurors in a death row case who sent the judge and bailiff chocolates in the shape of a penis and a pair of breasts. Well, in the case we’re looking at today, the picture speaks just as loudly but comes in the [...]

Last week the president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, accused Vice President Julio Cobos of plotting to destabilize the country and overthrow the government to satisfy his own ambition and win his place as president in 2010.

Zacarias Moussaoui is the only person in the U.S. charged as the 20th hijacker in connection with 9/11. “A Chronicle of Evil” is what U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft called Moussaoui’s indictment. But today, the once slam dunk case is being questioned.

Only a few days ago, jurors hearing the 1993 murder trial of Marcus Wellons (currently a death row inmate) sent the judge and chief bailiff chocolate in the shape of a penis and pair of breasts.

The question: What is the name of the body of water that separates Iran from Saudi Arabia?
The answer: has proven to be quite complicated…

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that challenges the federal government’s power to continue holding convicted sex offenders indefinitely after they have completed their prison terms.

Chilean freelance reporter Pascale Bonnefoy goes on trial today for libel and faces criminal charges for publishing an article that pointed to a retired military officer as the man responsible for terrorizing thousands of political prisoners during the Pinochet regime.

A state judge in Carson City, Nevada, rejected a proposed ballot initiative that sought to define a person as “everyone possessing a human genome.” According to NPR, the judge’s argument for rejecting the bill was that “the language was too vague and violated state law that limits questions to one subject.” What was the aim [...]

According to NPR, a woman dies every two days in France at the hands of her husband or partner. Those of us living in countries like Argentina (where more than 100 women are killed by their partners each year) or the US (where 1232 women are killed each year) are no strangers to domestic violence