The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line , 03-1388, dealing with the issue of whether foreign cruise ships that stop at US ports must comply with...

Ten years after the world's nations pledged to achieve equality for women in the Beijing Declaration , the progress meeting organized by the UN Commission on the Status of Women started Monday with controversy over American insistence...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has indicated in a letter to his Conservative Party shadow that he will amend the Prevention of Terrorism bill so that the government would have to apply to a judge...

The US State Department Monday released its 2004 annual reports on human rights practices in 196 countries, delivering with sharp criticisms of rights situations in Middle Eastern allies Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt. The document also censured...

In Monday's international brief, France's National Assembly met today in joint session with the country's Senate at the historic Palace of Versailles to approve an amendment to the French constitution that...

The Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to a case raising the question of when plaintiffs can sue in federal court, as opposed to state court. The question has lately sparked an important political debate, as plaintiffs often prefer to...

Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers testified Monday at his corporate fraud trial, now in its sixth week in Manhattan federal court. Ebbers said on the stand that he was unschooled in accounting...

Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Monday upheld the convictions of four Bosnian Serbs who found guilty in 2001 of crimes against detainees at a wartime prison camp in Bosnia. Miroslav Kvocka, Mladjo...

Lebanon's Prime Minister Omar Karami announced the resignation of his administration on Monday, just before a no-confidence vote was scheduled to take place. Karami had been under popular pressure to resign after his government was implicated in the February...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the Financial Times is reporting that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has expanded his inquiry into the corporate governance and accounting practices at American International Group (AIG)...