SUPREME COURT

The human safari exploitation of the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands has reached the British Parliament with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the tribe's reserve.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Egypt to mark the anniversary of the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.

Robin Tyler and Diane Olson were the first of 18,000 same-sex couples to legally wed in California

Duch, now 69 years old, was the commander of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison.

Mobbed by cameramen and with two fingers raised in a victory salute, Subramanian Swamy stood before the Supreme Court on Thursday, flushed with the vindication of an unrelenting legal campaign aimed at the country's most powerful politicians and the Congress party.

The BSE Sensex was subdued on Friday as some profit-taking emerged after the index rose more than 3 percent in the last three sessions, and as weak Asian markets ahead of key U.S. jobs data dented investor sentiment.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's contract with Macy's to exclusively sell certain products has a loophole that will let the company sell in J.C. Penney Co stores, according to the home-goods company.

As pro-business groups clamor to convince regulators to overhaul their draft of the controversial Volcker rule, fault lines are emerging within the opposition over just what a revamped draft should look like.

If Gilani is convicted of contempt, he faces up to six months in prison and would be disqualified from holding public office in the future.

The Supreme Court on Thursday revoked all 122 telecoms licences issued under a scandal-tainted 2008 sale, a fresh embarrassment for the government and plunging the mobile network market of Asia's third-largest economy into uncertainty.

Wall Street's own watchdog filed a complaint against Charles Schwab Corp on Wednesday accusing the online brokerage of requiring customers to waive their rights to pursue class actions against the firm, a violation of industry rules.

Two of the men who have accused Bernie Fine of sexually molesting them when they were ball boys is now accusing his wife, Laurie, of having sexual relationships with basketball team players. Bernie Fine, a former Syracuse University assistant men's basketball coach, was fired late last year, after being accused of molesting three men in the 1980s and 1990s.

As part of an undeniable war on Christianity, New York City is set to evict 17,000 churchgoers who use schools as a place of worship. (As if eliminating any reference to Christmas was not bad enough.)

Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be a guest character and voice on animated TV comedy The Simpsons, playing a neighbor of the family after they move from their home in fictional Springfield.

SOPA is gone for now (until someone re-introduces it), but ACTA and OPEN are two other anti-piracy measures written in the spirit of SOPA. ACTA isn't a proposed U.S. law, however. It's an international treaty already signed by several countries including the U.S. OPEN, on the other hand, picks up right where SOPA took off.

Newt Gingrich's rapidly deflating Florida poll numbers suggest the former Speaker of the House is headed for a decisive defeat, but he shows no signs of giving up the fight.

A minaret of the Taj Mahal, the UNESCO World Heritage Site in India, is found to show an increasing trend for tilting according to the latest affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to the Supreme Court. At the same time it reports that the tilt is within permissible limit of geodetic accuracy.

PACs and super PACs can now join forces under an umbrella organization, allowing them to donate directly to political candidates while also spending unlimited sums to promote or oppose candidates of their choice.

Presidents have been on the receiving end of tough criticism from other elected officials in private. But is it breaching decorum to point a finger?

Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, has vowed to return to the country and even run in upcoming elections.

A group of ultra-superstitious people in the Indian city of Nirmal in the state of Andhra Pradesh have killed a teenage boy, 14, in a belief that the sacrifice would help obtain hidden treasure in the region. The gruesome gang crime was committed on Thursday, which was India’s 63rd Republic Day.