President Bush Tuesday signed the US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) into law, making it the first official trade pact between the US and Central America. CAFTA will end tariffs against US products in...

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Tuesday agreed to a $2.4 billion settlement over a class-action lawsuit with investors in collapsed energy giant Enron Corp. The settlement is the largest yet, beating the $2.2 billion settlement with...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, Alabama Governor Bob Riley signed legislation today that creates a mandatory sentence of at least 20 years to life for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 12 and younger, and...

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga asked Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide when the next presidential election should be, in an effort to counter increasingly strong opposition calls for a vote this year....

Hassan Moghaddas, an Iranian judge who tried a highly-publicized case involving dissident journalist Akbar Ganji , was killed in Tehran on Tuesday by a gunman on a motorcycle. Moghaddas was shot and killed in his car...

After at least 36 people were killed in riots Monday, violence continued in Khartoum, Sudan on Tuesday in response to the death of former rebel leader John Garang [Wikipedia profile, who helped broker a peace deal and...

The Philippines government on Tuesday denied a witness's accusation that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo bribed election officials and threatened a lawsuit. Arroyo says people are being paid to testify against her as part of impeachment proceedings [JURIST...

Leonard Clark, of the Arizona Army National Guard , has been demoted from Specialist to Private First Class and fined $1,640 for disclosing classified information on his Iraq weblog . Soldiers are allowed to maintain such sites...

Indonesia's Supreme Court has replaced two judges in the trial of Newmont Mining Corporation on charges that it polluted Buyat Bay, near its mine . The high court ruled that the two were not qualified to...

A Maryland employee of the National Institutes of Health has been charged under the Terrorism Prevention Act with spreading false information and making a hoax for threatening a tax assessment board with anthrax. Michelle Ledgister,...