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Argentina to court: revert order on debt holdouts
Argentina is asking a US appeals court to reverse an order for the country to pay $1.33 billion to "holdout" creditors who refused to join two swaps ...
Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan
Pakistan's leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in ...
Argentina's fight on defaulted debt takes new step
It's been a decade since Argentina tarnished its reputation worldwide and became an economic misfit by engaging in the biggest sovereign debt default ...
Argentine court rejects intervention in media case
Argentina's Supreme Court rejected a proposal by the government to use a new legal regulation to get the top court to intervene in the case of a law ...
Richard Adams, early figure in gay marriage, dies
Richard Adams, who used both the altar and the courtroom to help begin the push for gay marriage four decades before it reached the center of the ...
Key events in Egypt's revolution and transition
Egyptians are voting Saturday in the second round of a referendum on disputed draft constitution that has polarized the country and plunged it into ...
Lawyer: Man likely back in Chicago jail he escaped
A convicted bank robber captured days after a daring escape from a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago will likely return to the same federal lockup, ...
Wisconsin court upholds domestic partner registry
Gay rights advocates scored a major win Friday when an appeals court ruled Wisconsin's domestic partnership registry was constitutional, but the ...
Top business story in '12: Sluggish global economy
This would be the year when the global economy finally regained its vigor. At least that's what many had hoped. It didn't happen. The three largest ...
UK High Court blocks drone intelligence challenge
Britain's High Court on Friday blocked a legal bid for an inquiry into the possible role of the country's spy agencies in aiding covert CIA drone ...
Venezuela court could decide on Chavez swearing-in
The president of Venezuela's Supreme Court said Thursday that it could decide whether it's constitutional to postpone the date of ailing President ...
AP poll: Mass shootings voted top 2012 news story
The horrific massacre of 26 children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school, along with other mass shootings, was the top news story of 2012, ...
Venezuela VP hopes Chavez can be sworn in Jan. 10
Venezuela's vice president said on Wednesday that the government is still aiming for President Hugo Chavez to be sworn in for a new term as scheduled ...
Obama's call for action against gun violence
President Barack Obama says the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., obligates the nation to finally act to reduce gun violence.
Bork nomination fight altered judicial selection
Conservatives wanted Robert H. Bork on the Supreme Court. They wound up with Anthony Kennedy, the key vote in reaffirming a woman's right to an ...
Bork, whose failed nomination made history, dies
Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon's behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped ...
Irish government to legalize life-saving abortion
Ireland's government pledged Tuesday to pass a law soon that will allow women to receive abortions if continued pregnancy threatens their lives — ...
Argentina launches process to break up media group
Argentina's government told the country's largest media conglomerate on Monday that it has begun a process to break up the company and auction off its ...
Miss. state high court building briefly evacuated
The Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals have been briefly evacuated after a bomb threat but no explosives were found. Courts spokeswoman ...
Philippines OKs divisive contraceptives bill
Philippine legislators passed a landmark bill Monday that would provide government funding for contraceptives and sexuality classes in schools despite ...
Australian court: Worker's comp covers sex mishap
An Australian court has ruled that a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex on a business trip is eligible for worker's compensation benefits.
High court fight looms over right to carry a gun
The next big issue in the national debate over guns — whether people have a right to be armed in public — is moving closer to Supreme Court review.
Mainstream Anglicans take back Zimbabwe cathedral
Mainstream Anglican Christians in Zimbabwe took back their cathedral on Sunday after a lockout of more than five years staged by an excommunicated, ...
Court lets slaves' descendants sue Cherokee chief
Descendants of slaves owned by members of the Cherokee Nation can sue the current chief in an attempt to restore their tribal memberships, a federal ...
Flailing Honduras in yet another political crisis
Members of the ruling party met behind closed doors, bartering all night for votes to depose four Supreme Court justices who had rejected the ...