British Foreign Minister Jack Straw Wednesday unveiled the question voters will be asked in an upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution : Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a Constitution for the European Union?"...

The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has reinstated part of an obesity lawsuit against McDonald's , ruling that two New York children should be allowed to pursue their deceptive advertising claims. US District...

Lawsuits brought by three same-sex couples married in Massachusetts and Canada seeking to have their marriages recognized in Florida have been dropped because the plaintiffs do not want to risk having the US Supreme Court set precedent by rejecting...

AP is reporting that the US Senate has confirmed Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State by a vote of 85-13. Rice will be sworn in at the White House Wednesday night with a more elaborate swearing-in ceremony by President...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has just voted 10-8 to approve President Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzales as US Attorney General. The nomination now goes to the full Senate. AP has a background story on this morning's committee meeting here....

EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told the European Parliament Tuesday that despite overtures from newly sworn-in Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, the European Union would not be granting an association accord to the...

Citing "constitutional errors", the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday overturned the controversial conviction and death sentence of British national Kenny Richey of Edinburgh. Richey will be released from death row in 90...

The president of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said Wednesday that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had the right to vote in the upcoming national elections, but would not be able to do so due to logistical problems....

In Wednesday's international brief, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens says that no prosecutions will proceed against the four Britons released from Guantanamo Bay based on material gathered by UK MI5 investigators who made...

Working conditions in the American meatpacking industry are so bad that they violate basic human and workers rights, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch . The report, Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers' Rights in U.S....