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For more than three years, U.S. securities regulators investigated allegations of accounting fraud at a small telecom firm called China Voice Holding Corp, but could not make a case.

The Seattle man accused of the 1957 abduction and slaying of a young Chicago-area girl was sent back to Illinois on Wednesday to face a murder charge there in the five-decade-old case.

Anders Breivik knows the end date of his civil war against Islam in Europe.

A conservative legal group is taking up the defense against an atheist group's lawsuit seeking the removal of the World Trade Center cross from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.

In Oslo, Norway, police continue to investigate Anders Behring Breivik's possible associations.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is close to a decision to bid for the presidency in an election next year because he has doubts about his protege, President Dmitry Medvedev, senior political sources say.

An international rights group on Wednesday called on Uganda to stop prosecuting civilians in military courts and to immediately release 341 people under army detention.

A British prop designer who makes replicas of the menacing Stormtrooper helmets featured in Star Wars films won a legal battle Wednesday against director George Lucas, who took him to the High Court in 2008 over copyright infringement.

The upcoming trial of Anders Behring Breivik has shined a spotlight on Norway's innovative prison system.

A judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to freeze federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, backing the Obama administration's push to ease restrictions on the controversial research technique.

Andrew Ainsworth claims victory over George Lucas in Supreme Court.

The unreleased raw footage of Michael Jackson rehearsing before his death should not be shown to the jurors, according to a Superior Court judge. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor has ruled that the raw clips of "This Is It" video, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, should not be shown to the jurors.

The sentencing on Tuesday of an environmental activist who disrupted the sale of oil drilling rights highlighted the nebulous space between lawful protest and illegal action.

Olympic silver medalist skier Jeret "Speedy" Peterson has committed suicide near Salt Lake City, days after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, police said on Tuesday.

September 11 "was an attack against America, not Christianity," the group claims.

After the divorce, she is trying to make her career big.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is no longer opposed to paying Maria Shriver spousal support, TheWrap has confirmed.

Orange County Superior Court Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. announced on Tuesday that he would not release the jurors' names until October 25 or later

Goodwin Liu, a University of California law professor whose confirmation to a federal appeals court was blocked in the U.S. Senate, has been nominated to serve as a justice on the top court in California.

Two days after same-sex marriage became legal in New York, the state's attorney general has taken legal action challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. law which defines marriage as between a man and woman.

The names of jurors in the Casey Anthony murder trial will remain secret until at least October 25 to allow those enraged by her acquittal to "compose and restrain themselves," according to the judge's order on Tuesday.