Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a reporter of Cairo-based Baghdadia Iraqi television, will stand trial on charge of assaulting a foreign leader, Abdula Sattar al-Beirqdar, spokesman of the Higher Judicial Council, told reporters.

Zaidi, 29, has been in custody after he threw his shoes at Bush during a joint statement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Dec. 14, 2008.

Late on December, Zaidi was supposed to face an Iraqi court, but his defense team head Diyaa al-Saadi won a postponement after he presented an impugn for the charges against his client.

Saadi wanted to reduce the charge of "assaulting a foreign head of a state during official visit" to simply an insult to Bush.

However, the spokesman confirmed that the assault charge, which is an offense that carries a prison term of between five to 15 years under Iraqi law, will stand.

A smiling Khan emerged from his house and addressed reporters face-to-face for the first time since 2004 but indicated he would not be talking about Pakistan's secretive atomic program or about who was involved in leaking its secrets around the world.

"We don't want to talk about the past things," he said as the guards who have enforced his long isolation stood aside for a throng of TV crews and journalists.

Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear program, took sole responsibility in 2004 for leaking the nuclear secrets but was immediately pardoned by former President Pervez Musharraf and placed under de facto house arrest. The government insists neither it nor the Pakistani military was aware of his activities.

The 72-year-old scientist, who has suffered a string of illnesses, began agitating for an end to the restrictions after last year's ouster of Musharraf. Over the past year, he has been allowed to occasionally meet friends outside his house and has often spoken to reporters over the phone.

The decision focused partly on a rocky and inhospitable island held by Ukraine and linked to the mythical Greek hero Achilles.

However, the final judgment made no mention of natural resources, and it was unclear how the new line would divide access to the region's estimated billions of cubic meters of natural gas and 10 million tons of oil.

Ukraine and Romania both welcomed the decision, though the U.N.'s highest judicial body largely discounted the arguments and maps they had presented to back their claims.

Romanian delegate Bogdan Aurescu said his side got nearly 80 percent of its claim over the 12,000-square-kilometer (4,633-square-mile) territory.

He said the decision could open new era of cooperation between the countries. Media in Bucharest suggested the region's energy resources could help Romania become less dependent on Russian natural gas.

Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Oleksandr Kupchyshyn called the court's decision "a wise compromise," and said geologists would determine how much energy potential each side could exploit.

The ruling gave Ukraine a large portion of the northeastern side of Romania's claim. "We are satisfied that we have become party to this civilized solution," Kupchyshyn said.

The court's 15 justices unanimously adopted the binding decision, after the two countries had failed in 24 rounds of negotiation to settle the dispute that started shortly after the end of World War II.

The court rejected Ukraine's suggestion that the boundary run through Serpent Island, also known as Snake Island — where legend says Achilles was buried. Ruins have been discovered of what of what is believed to have been an ancient temple to the Greek warrior with the vulnerable heel.

Romania said the rocky outcrop 23 miles (37 kilometers) off the coast and the mouth of the Danube was so small it didn't qualify as an island. The entire island was placed in Ukraine's portion of the sea.

Critics say Madrid should mind its own business, particularly since Spain is still struggling to address its own bloody past. Supporters argue that some crimes are so heinous that all of humanity is a victim and somebody has to prosecute them.

Spain is hardly alone. A number of European countries have enacted some form of "universal jurisdiction," a doctrine that allows courts to reach beyond national borders in cases of torture or war crimes.

_ In 2001, a war crimes suit against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was filed in Belgium by Palestinian survivors of the 1982 Sabra and Chatilla refugee camp massacre in Lebanon. Belgium's highest court then dismissed the war crimes proceedings against Sharon and others, ruling it had no legal basis to charge them.

_ French judges have opened investigations into Congolese security officials and convicted a Tunisian Interior Ministry official of torturing a fellow citizen on Tunisian soil.

_ And Spain has indicted the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden among others, including Argentine dirty war suspects.

The 30-year-old man — identified in court documents as Park Dae-sung — was charged last week with posting a blog in December that said the government had banned major financial institutions and trade businesses from buying U.S. dollars.

The case has ignited debate about freedom of speech on the Internet in South Korea, one of the world's most wired and tech-savvy nations.

The blogger has been in custody since his arrest earlier this month. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison or a fine of up to 50 million won ($36,360).

Prosecutors said last week the posting was not only inaccurate but it had "a clear and grave influence" on the foreign exchange market and undermined the nation's credibility.

The blogger had gained popularity after some of his predictions, including the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers, proved correct.

Defense lawyer Park Chan-jong told The Associated Press on Wednesday the blogger has also asked that the Constitutional Court be allowed to rule whether the law under which he was charged is unconstitutional. The Seoul Central District Court can either reject his petition or ask the top court to decide.

Park said the arrest violated his client's freedom of speech rights.