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After initiating a hunger-strike in early February, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja along with 20 other jailed opposition activists will have his case re-tried.

Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador in Cairo for security reasons after protests in Egypt against the kingdom's arrest of an Egyptian lawyer, marking a diplomatic rupture between the long-time allies.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are not planning to postpone their visit to China next week because of the reported American protection of a Chinese civil-rights activist who recently escaped house arrest, a State Department official said Saturday.

An Australian court has ordered fast food restaurants chain Kentucky Fried Chicken to pay $8.3 million to the family of an Australian girl who was paralyzed and was left with severe brain damage after eating a twister wrap at a KFC restaurant near Sydney.

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng made his way to the U.S. embassy in Beijing from his home in Linyi village in Shandong province after his escape from house arrest on Sunday, fellow dissident Hu Jia told BBC News.

The first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on an Arizona immigration law critics say will lead to racial profiling of Latinos. She didn't lose the plainspoken, blunt tone she is known for.

A judge in the Netherlands has upheld the government's plan to introduce a weed pass that would ban foreign tourists from purchasing weed in Amsterdam and across the nation.

The lawyer for Trayvon Martin's parents wants George Zimmerman's bail revoked after it was revealed the defendant did not disclose the more than $200,000 he received in web donations.

Osama bin Laden's three widows will arrive in his home country of Saudi Arabia on Friday after being deported from Pakistan earlier in the day.

If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds part of the Arizona immigration enforcement law, it can still be struck down through lawsuits claiming civil rights violations after the law goes into effect.

The final list of Egyptian presidential candidates was announced on Thursday, and 13 men will face off in the first free presidential elections in the country in decades.

While Zsa Zsa Gabor is 95 years of age and on the brink of passing away, her husband, Frederic Prinz Von Anhalt, and his stepdaughter Francesca Hilton are battling over the Hungarian actress' conservatorship.

James Tapke, 41, of Ohio, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for a misdemeanor charge of binding his 12-year-old daughter with duct tape and locking her in a metal dog cage. Tapke claims the incident, dating back to January, was just a joke.

The New York police have arrested a woman who admitted to faking cancer for years to gain sympathy gifts and money from family, friends and donors.

Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer Wednesday were concerned with how Arizona's immigration enforcement law would operate on the ground.

Ted Nugent made a deal with federal prosecutors on charges he illegally killed a bear in Alaska for his reality show and will now have to pay a $10,000 fine and make a public service announcement about responsible hunting that will appear on the show.

Evelyn Lozada and Jennifer Williams got into a physical alteration during an episode of Basketball Wives aired Monday.

Debbie Stevens, a New York based kidney donor, was fired after donating her organ to her boss. Now the 47-year-old divorced mom of two is demanding her kidney back in a lawsuit.

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven year prison sentence on an abuse of office conviction, went on a hunger strike to protest the “concentration camp of violence and lawlessness” created in her country by current president President Viktor Yanukovych.

William Balfour is on trial for murder.

Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister, was moved back to her cell after a short stint in the hospital. She refused treatment from doctors for an undisclosed medical issue.