Lawyers for former investment banker Frank Quattrone said Wednesday that Quattrone is appealing his permanent ban from the securities industry . Last November, the National Association of Securities Dealers permanently barred Quattrone from working in the...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair Wednesday refused to amend the proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill to include a sunset clause that would require ministers to revisit the legislation in November. The Conservative Party ...

The US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Wednesday approved the Transportation Equity Act . The six-year, $284 billion highway and mass transit bill stalled last year over...

US District Judge Richard Cebull ordered a temporary halt Wednesday to Bush administration plans to allow the resumption of imports of Canadian cattle next week. Judge Cebull granted a preliminary injunction preventing a USDA regulation allowing Canadian cattle imports...

Drug trafficking in Afghanistan threatens to undermine the rule of law and democracy in the country, according to a report released Wednesday by the International Narcotics Control Board , the independent body charged with monitoring implementation of UN...

Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported Wednesday that a disk seized from the home of one the suspected Madrid train bombers contained detailed plans of New York's Grand Central Station , including "highly specialized technical information."...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales presented the FY 2006 Justice Department budget Tuesday to the US House Committee on Appropriations . Gonzales testified that the FBI's counterterrorism workload has...

The UK Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab, a traditional Muslim gown, was unlawful because the school denied 16-year-old Shabina Begum the right...

Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud al-Merwani and his son, lawyer Aryan Barwez al-Merwani, both of whom were working with the Iraqi Special Tribunal were assassinated late Tuesday as they were exiting their Baghdad home. In...

France has replaced the US as the industrialized nation receiving the most asylum applications from refugees, though overall numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe and North America have reached their lowest levels since 1988, according to report from...