Italy’s highest court on Thursday confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man of murdering her British flatmate 17 years ago in a sensational case that polarized trial watchers on both sides of the Atlantic.

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Romania's far-right presidential candidate to overturn a domestic court decision to annul a December presidential election.

The Strasbourg-based court said France violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, relating to the right to respect for private and family life.

Europe’s top rights court yesterday sided with a 69-year-old Frenchwoman whose husband had obtained a divorce on the grounds that she had stopped having

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that refusal to have sex is not grounds for divorce in a historic victory for consent and women's rights in France.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled today, in a Chamber formation and by unanimous vote, that no interim measures should be indicated in the

A woman blamed for her divorce due to lack of intimacy successfully appealed the decision in the European Court of Human Rights, highlighting issues of women's rights in France. The ruling deemed the French courts' decision a violation of the woman's private life,

The European court of human rights (ECHR) sided Thursday with a French woman who had stopped having sex with her husband, saying she should not have been considered at fault on those grounds in their divorce.

Amanda Knox appealed her conviction, saying her rights had been violated by the police's failure to provide a lawyer and adequate translator during a long night of questioning just days after her roommate was murdered.

ROME (AP) — Amanda Knox has a final shot at clearing her name of the last vestige of criminal wrongdoing when Italy’s highest court on Thursday hears her appeal of a slander conviction for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner in the 2007 murder of her British flatmate.

Italy's Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon upheld Amanda Knox's criminal conviction for slandering her former boss, Patrick Lumumba, nearly two decades ago.