After a sandstorm got in the way of talks yesterday, Iraqi leaders met again on Tuesday to try and iron out their last remaining differences in order to submit a constitution by the August 15 deadline. Iraqi...

Microsoft announced a $7 million settlement Tuesday of its lawsuit against Scott Richter and his company, once one of the biggest spammers in the world. Last summer Richter's company also paid $50,000 in penalties and costs [NY...

Lebanon's cabinet Monday night approved the creation of a 12-member, half-Muslim, half-Christian committee that is charged with drafting a new election law. The country conducted elections in May and June under the 2000 election law [official text...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's latest plans to fight terror have drawn cross-party criticism and have led one senior MP from Blair's own Labour Party to level accusations that the government response to terror threats is panicked. Blair's recent...

A long-awaited FDA ruling on access to an emergency contraceptive called Plan B is expected to be announced by the end of the month, as part of a deal that got Lester Crawford approved by...

Lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan filed a petition of certiorari on Monday, asking the US Supreme Court to block military tribunals for terror suspects. The high court had once before denied cert on...

Third Interim Report, Independent Inquiry Committee, August 8, 2005 [accusing former head of the UN Oil-for-Food Program Benon Sevan of taking almost $150,000 in bribes and urging UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to lift his UN-granted immunity for the "purposes...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law brief, Warren Buffett company Berkshire Hathaway has revealed that the management company is being investigated by the SEC and the state of New York, among others. In a filing with...

Leading Monday's states brief, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request to suspend an Iowa state law that prohibits certain sex offenders from living within 2000 feet of a school or day care...

Argentinian police announced on Monday the arrest of Milan Lukic, a former Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander who in July was convicted in absentia by a Serbian war crimes court and sentenced to 20 years for his role...