Leak of Kasab’s confessional video to TV channel angers court

MUMBAI - The Mumbai court trying the 26/11 attack Thursday urged police to take action against the officer who leaked Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab’s confessional video to a TV channel here.

Aung San Suu Kyi trial wraps up with closing statements, Myanmar court sets verdict for Friday

YANGON, Myanmar — The high-profile trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi concluded Tuesday with the court announcing it will deliver its verdict at the end of the week, a lawyer said.

Sotomayor’s Puerto Rico relatives hope to attend her confirmation hearings for high court

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rican relatives of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor — the New York-born federal appeals judge who is vying to be the first Hispanic justice on the high court — hope to attend her confirmation hearings in Washington.

Trinamool activists torch CPI-M office in Khejuri

KOLKATA - Violence continued in Khejuri in West Bengal Saturday as opposition Trinamool Congress activists set afire a party office of the state’s ruling communists and started a ’social boycott’ of police to protest fellow partymen’s arrests.

White House: Sotomayor used ‘poor’ word choice in controversial 2001 speech

WASHINGTON — In a bit damage control, the White House on Friday said Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges she chose her words poorly by saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a “better” conclusion than a white male judge. “I think if she had the speech to do all over again, I think she’d change that word,” presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.

Ambulance takes suspected Nazi guard Demjanjuk from home to immigration offices in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his home by ambulance Monday and driven to a U.S. immigration office as agents prepared to deport him to Germany.

Mumbai court rules that Kasab is not a minor as per medical reports

MUMBAI - A special court here today ruled that Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone survivor of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, is not a minor.

Shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist gets three years in prison

BAGHDAD - A Baghdad court Thursday sentenced the Iraqi television journalist who threw his shoes at then US president George W. Bush to three years in prison, judicial sources said.

Five GITMO detainees say they planned 9/11

WASHINGTON - The five detainees at Guantanamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people.