A landmark ruling that legalized gay sex between consenting partners in India was challenged Thursday in the country's high court, lawyers said. The supreme court issued a notice to the nonprofit Naz Foundation that had won a lower-court verdict after a seven-year legal fight to decriminalize gay sex. Notices also were issued to the federal government and the New Delhi high court, which ruled last week that consensual sex between partners of the same gender was legal. An astrologer filed ...

Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner resigned as leader of the ruling political party Monday following a poor showing in Sunday's elections, the official news agency Telam reported.

The U.S. government cannot collectively seal its records in more than 100 cases involving the indefinite detention of suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling in favor of detainees and news media outlets means some judicial records in the cases involving Guantanamo detainees could become public on July 29, a deadline set by Monday's ruling. The government had tried to designate all of its responses in cases seeking indefinite detention ...

South Africans waited on election results Thursday in a ballot that the ruling African National Congress party appeared on course to win in a landslide. South African media reported Thursday that the ANC had won around 65 percent of the vote with one third of ballots counted. Rreports suggested the opposition Democratic Alliance could be on course to claim control of Western Cape province -- but the ANC was ahead in the country's eight other provinces. Final results are not ...

The president of Fiji on Saturday defied a court ruling that had declared the Pacific nation's military government illegal, swearing in as prime minister a man in direct opposition to the ruling, the state-run Web site said.