10-02-27 The Colombian constitutional court has rejected a referendum which could have led to President Alvaro Uribe running for a third term in office. 哥伦比亚宪法法院否决了一项全民公决提议，该提议可能使总统阿尔瓦罗乌里韦第三次连任。 Mr Uribe's second term...

10-02-25 The personal assistant to former Ramones manager Linda Stein has been convicted in a New York court of bludgeoning her boss to death. 雷蒙斯乐队前经纪人琳达斯坦的私人助理涉嫌使用棍棒将其上司殴打致死，日前她已在纽约某法庭被定罪。 Stein co-managed The...

10-01-12 The first US federal court case to determine whether states are allowed to ban same-sex marriages has opened in San Francisco, California. 美国加州联邦法院第一次判定其是否有权禁止同性恋婚姻案件在旧金山展开审理。 Two gay couples are testifying at the...

09-11-18 A Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Spain's Canary Islands has been told to appear in court on public order charges, her supporters say. 西班牙加那利群岛一名西萨哈撒绝食运动者被告知因扰乱公共秩序而必须接受庭审。 Aminatou Haidar's supporter...

09-10-27 A man accused of assaulting pop star Leona Lewis is not fit to attend court, a judge has been told. 一位法官得知，攻击流行歌手Leona Lewis的男子不适合出庭受审。 Leona Lewis was signing copies of her autobiography Peter Kowalczyk, 29, was charged with...

09-10-25 The founders of The Pirate Bay have been hit a with new order to remove links to copyright material. 网站The Pirate Bay的创建者接到命令，必须去除有版权材料的链接。 Founders of The Pirate Bay are considering an appeal. A Dutch court has ordered them...

09-10-08 Chapter 20 - The Ogre's Castle BETWEEN six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple -- man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook. Right so came by and by a knight rid...

09-10-08 Chapter 19 - Knight-Errantry as a Trade SANDY and I were on the road again, next morning, bright and early. It was so good to open up one's lungs and take in whole luscious barrels-ful of the blessed God's untainted, dew-fashioned, woodlandscented a...

09-10-08 Chapter 18 - In The Queen's Dungeons WELL, I arranged all that; and I had the man sent to his home. I had a great desire to rack the executioner; not because he was a good, painstaking and paingiving official, -- for surely it was not to his discred...

09-10-08 Chapter 17 - A Royal Banquet MADAME, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excuse; for her fright dissolved away, and she was soon so importunate to have me give an exhibition and kill somebody, that the thing...