Law & Society

A United Nations panel has decided that Julian Assange's asylum in the Ecuador Embassy in London is tantamount to arbitray detention, International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. Should the decision be made final, Assange may then be free to go out without being arrested.

A woman has been charged with concealing the death of her newborn baby. She said that she was unaware of her pregnancy before she gave birth. She hid her unresponsive child inside a shoebox.

An 81-year-old nun has been accused of getting in a car accident in a New Hampshire department store parking lot and then driving away.