TORONTO – A lawyer for a former Guantanamo Bay detainee says a U.S. court decision in an unrelated case helps his client’s appeal of his convictions by a military commission. A U.S appeals court on Friday set aside the conviction of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who allegedly produced an al-Qaida recruiting …

SEOUL, South Korea – Seoul says rival North Korea will return two South Koreans who Pyongyang accused of illegally entering the country last month. Officials at South Korea’s Unification Ministry said the North informed them Monday that the South Koreans will cross back into the South later this week through …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jasmine Stone entered a Kentucky courtroom as the prosecution’s named victim in a domestic violence case. She left in handcuffs after recanting her assault claims against her boyfriend. Jefferson District Judge Sheila Collins ordered Stone jailed last week on a charge of filing a false report. Stone …

MOSCOW – The Russian government has condemned the freezing of Russian accounts in France and Belgium as part of an effort to enforce a $50 billion judgment for the destruction of the Yukos oil company. An arbitration court in The Hague ruled last year that Russia must compensate the former …

At the time, it looked like a bold attempt to contain a hemorrhaging humanitarian scandal. On March 10, 2010 — the same day it was slammed in a report to the United Nations for “irregular” procedures in supplying food to war-ravaged Somalia — the embattled World Food Program promised it …

More black men need to teach — that from filmmaker Spike Lee during a speech with Education Secretary Arne Duncan at Morehouse College in Atlanta this week. “We have more young black people in prison than enrolled in colleges and universities. That’s a frightening number,” Lee said. The U.S. Department …

Looking for a change of pace, a new job perhaps? If you’re ready to swim with the sharks then the Discovery Channel has the perfect opening for you. “Must enjoy exotic, waterfront locations, buff bodies in bathing suits and having the bejesus scared out of you,” reads an ad released …

Kim Kardashian is so caught up in her lavish lifestyle that the reality show diva even puts diamonds on her lollipops. Fox 411 talked with the reality show superstar at the March 4 grand opening of the Sugar Factory candy store in the Paris Las Vegas Hotel, where she told …

Crucial data on the American climate, part of the basis for proposed trillion-dollar global warming legislation, is churned out by a 120-year-old weather system that has remained mostly unchanged since Benjamin Harrison was in the White House. The network measures surface temperature by tallying paper reports sent in by snail …

Eighteen years ago football legend O.J. Simpson went on the lam in a white Ford Bronco and forever changed the lives of a handful of legal eagles. The drama inside the courtroom during the lengthy O.J. Simpson murder trial was more riveting than anything we now watch on reality television, …