The manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to toss out a lower court ruling that would restrict access to the drug.A US federal appeals court imposed restrictions last month on mifepristone but the ruling was...

A UK court will on Tuesday consider contentious plans to extend a scheme obliging the most polluting vehicles to pay for using London's roads, as opponents engage in protests -- and even sabotage.The High Court case comes just weeks before London May...

The US Supreme Court said Thursday that an eight-month investigation that questioned 100 possible suspects had failed to find the source of the stunning leak last year of its draft abortion ruling.The unprecedented leak, which the court called "one o...

A Nazi typist has been convicted for more than 10,500 deaths.A two-year suspended sentence was imposed on the former 97-year-old secretary who worked in a Nazi detention camp. Despite working as a civil employee, the judge accused Irmgard Furchner of...

By AFPNew Zealand authorities on Tuesday launched a battle for custody of an infant whose parents are blocking life-saving surgery because blood donors may have been vaccinated against Covid-19.The New Zealand health authority took the bid for emerge...

The two men whose convictions for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X were overturned last year will receive $36 million from the city and state of New York, their lawyer confirmed Sunday night."The tragedy of Malcolm X's murder was felt all over the...

Europe’s top courts said that a general ban on headscarves at work can be allowed as long as it does not discriminate against specific employee.According to Reuters, the case concerned a Muslim woman, L.F., who was told she could not wear a headscarf...

By AFPAward-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, arrested last week in Tehran, must serve a six-year sentence previously handed to him in 2010, the judicial authority announced Tuesday.Panahi, 62, has won a number of awards at internati...

By AFPThe sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence for the killings, the Paris chief prosecutor said Tuesday.Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroc...

The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life.The conservative-dominated court...

Britain on Friday approved a US government request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face trial over the publication of secret military files, prompting outrage from his supporters.Home Secretary Priti Patel's interior ministry said As...