Leading Wednesday's states brief, the California Supreme Court has let stand a new law granting registered domestic partners many of the same rights and protections of heterosexual marriages. Without comment, the Supreme Court upheld the decision of...

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, on the day before SEC Chairman William Donaldson steps down, the Commission has voted 3-2 to keep a rule forcing mutual funds to be overseen by an independent chairman. The...

As anticipated , President Bush Wednesday announced the creation of a new intelligence service within the FBI, endorsing 70 of 74 recommendations presented by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the US Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction...

The Russian parliament on Wednesday gave second reading approval to amendments to the country's election law that could further strengthen President Vladimir Putin's government. The proposals would ban the formation of blocs by political parties and block the use...

A group of Iraqi women attending an international meeting of women's rights activists in Amman, Jordan, called Wednesday for a 40 percent representation quota in the Iraqi National Assembly. The two-day event, hosted by Women for Women International [advocacy...

According to a report in Malaysia's News Straits Times , government and opposition politicians in Malaysia are pushing for the release of dozens of terror suspects, many suspected of ties to al-Qaeda, held without trial for the past...

Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh announced plans on Wednesday for Canada to ban the bulk export of prescription medicines under certain circumstances and conditions. Legislation to change the Canadian Food and Drugs Act...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia announced Wednesday that it has ordered the release of former Bosnian Serb police chief Stevan Todorovic after only two-thirds of his ten year sentence had...

Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo of the International Criminal Court told the UN Security Council in a statement Wednesday that the ICC's preliminary investigation into the situation in Darfur begun June 1,...

Egypt's Higher Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that a new law that would have allowed more than one person to run for president is unconstitutional. The proposed change, seen as an important political reform, was ordered by Egyptian President...