HUMAN RIGHTS

Under the Saudi’s conservative laws, women needed the permission of a male guardian to work, to marry, to divorce, to travel abroad, and to undergo certain kinds of surgery.

Georgia officials executed Troy Davis last week for a 1989 murder case that was almost entirely based on eyewitness testimony. Now, more than 20 years later, legal experts say Davis' story is another example in a debate about how reliable are eyewitnesses' testimonies, especially in death penalty cases.

On Sunday, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah decreed that women will have the right to vote and run for local elections, starting in 2015. Saudi Arabia included, there are at least five countries that still don't allow women to vote for various reasons.

Libya's interim rulers said Sunday they had found a mass grave containing the bodies of 1,270 inmates killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at a Tripoli prison.

The latest from Mexico's drug war: A missing female journalist was found decapitated in Nuevo Laredo, a city near the Texas border.

The execution of Georgia man Troy Davis in connection with the murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer 22 years ago has evoked protests in different parts of the world.

Borders Group Inc's plan to sell customer information to former rival Barnes & Noble Inc hit a snag on Thursday when a judge raised questions about the company's privacy policy.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's United Nations speech on Thursday angered a number of world leaders, especially the delegates from the United States, who walked out of the General Assembly while Ahmadinejad soliloquized.

Attacking the U.S., September 11, NATO and a number of other topics, Iran's President Ahmadinejad gave a long, controversial address to the United Nations. Full text reprinted here.

China will have to wait for another two decades, if not longer, before hosting another Olympic Games to give other nations a fair chance, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge told the official Xinhua news agency on Thursday.

American rock band R.E.M. has announced that it will break up after 31 years of music.

After 31 years of churning out hits like Losing My Religion and The One I Love R.E.M. has finally bowed out. In a statement posted on their official web site on Wednesday, the rock band said that they had decided to call it a day.

American rock band R.E.M. has decided to collectively call it a day, after a career spanning three decades, 15 albums, and countless hit singles.

The internet community has accused Yahoo of censoring email messages on Occupy Wall Street protests, after numerous videos were posted on YouTube by Yahoo users demonstrating the censoring.

An attorney for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis said Tuesday he has asked prison officials and the pardons board to let Davis take a polygraph test before his scheduled execution.

The board was the only thing standing between Davis, 42, and execution. It convened on Monday to hear hours of testimonies from supporters and prosecutors.

The Clinton-era don't ask, don't tell military policy, under which service members were forbidden to come out as gay, was officially repealed on Tuesday. Here's what politicians and military officials are saying.

A Georgia parole board has decided to reject a request for clemency for death row inmate Troy Davis after it has heard testimonies from supporters and prosecutors.

Troy Davis will be executed as planned as the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday denied clemency for the death row inmate convicted of murdering police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Davis is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Bill Clinton reminds me of a washed-up, retired major league ballplayer who misses the spotlight and cheering crowds so much that he will do anything to remain relevant and in the public eye.

Around 50 people were killed during two days of anti-government protests in Sanaa, Yemen. According to reports, pro-government forces used snipers to kill demonstrators.