US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter , co-sponsor with Senator Patrick Leahy of a bill to end asbestos injury lawsuits and pay the claims from a private fund instead, said Tuesday he was still urging...

Lawyers for former star investment banker Frank Quattrone asked an appeals court Tuesday to throw out his conviction due to confusing jury instructions given at his trial. Quattrone, sentenced to 18 months in prison , was...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Joint Electoral Management Body in Afghanistan released the final list of approved candidates on Tuesday for the upcoming national parliamentary elections currently scheduled for September 18 . Under...

King Mswati III of Swaziland has officially refused to sign the final draft of the country's proposed constitution , which passed through both the House of Assembly and Senate of Swaziland in June [JURIST...

Judge Barbara Jones , in a ruling made public Tuesday, has denied a petition by former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers for a new trial, opening the way for him to be sentenced as...

European antitrust investigators raided Intel Corp. offices in Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy Tuesday as part of an ongoing probe of the chipmaker European affairs by the European Commission, which over the last four years has been...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Tuesday again called for an independent probe into the May killings of hundreds of protestors by government troops in Uzbekistan. The Uzbek government...

Despite earlier doubts that the Iraqi constitution will be completed and ratified on schedule in a referendum, Farid Ayar, a member of Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission , said Tuesday he is "optimistic" that the...

BBC television is reporting that UK police have made a "series of arrests" in the London bombings case after they identified the body of a bomber who died in the Tavistock Square bus blast. It is not clear whether...

Echoing earlier statements by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke after last week's London bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons Monday that he intended to stick by the current timetable for new counter-terrorism...