Conservatives in the Canadian parliament plan to introduce an amendment Tuesday to scrap Bill C-38 , which establishes the Civil Marriage Act and allows for same-sex unions. Federal Liberals believe they will have...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that 20 former NYSE traders who oversaw stock auctions were indicted on charges they traded stocks which benefited their firms at the expense of...

A federal judge in Alabama indicated Tuesday that she would throw out three perjury counts against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , but that she would allow his trial to proceed on additional charges. District Judge...

Iran's judiciary Tuesday rejected Canada's demands that the remains of a Iranian-Canadian photographer who died in detention in Tehran be returned to Canada. Officials in Ottawa demanded last week that Iran return the body of Zahra Kazemi...

Data services group LexisNexis said Tuesday that personal information of 310,000 US citizens may have been stolen, significantly more than the 30,000 announced in March. An investigation by parent company Reed Elsevier found that company...

An Afghan court has sentenced two deputy ministers and six others to prison on corruption charges, a court official said Tuesday. The case was the first major corruption case under the new government, since President Hamid Karzai ...

Andrea Dworkin , a feminist who campaigned against pornography as a violation of women's civil rights, has died at the age of 58, her family said on Monday. Dworkin published numerous books during her life, including...

AP is reporting that three men have been indicted on charges of plotting to attack financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, DC. The three men are in custody in England, law enforcement officials said. An announcement...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday warned Iraqi interim leaders to avoid political purgings that could lead to corruption in the government in the wake of its recent formation. He also urged the government...

A Cambodian group gathering evidence of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge government has appealed to governments worldwide for more evidence that can be used in the trials of former leaders. Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation...