London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said Friday that the confirmed death toll from the Thursday bomb attacks in the British capital had risen to "at least 50" and would go up as more bodies were recovered from damaged cars in the subway system, but that it was not likely to go beyond 100. [...]

Florida State Attorney Bernie McCabe announced Thursday that he had found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing with respect to the collapse of Terri Schiavo 15 years ago. Following Schiavo's autopsy last month, Govenor Jeb Bush asked McCabe to investigate what he suspected as an unexplained 40 to 70 minute gap between her collapse and her [...]

A spokesman for NATO said Thursday that multinational stabilization forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina had arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, son of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who is sought for genocide charges in the July 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in eastern Bosnia. Aleksandar is suspected of knowing where his father and other war criminals are hiding [...]

Speaking at the annual conference of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) in London Thursday, US Congressman Michael Oxley (R-OH) said that the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation was "rushed" and includes "excessive" corporate reforms. The legislation sponsored in 2002 by Oxley and Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) came in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals [...]

UN Special Representative for Sudan Jan Pronk said Thursday that bandits in the Darfur region of Sudan have been stealing food and terrorizing and killing workers bringing supplies into the region. Pronk also said a group of bandits attacked offices of the UN and an international nongovernmental organization last Saturday night but failed to take [...]

Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said Thursday that he and his Cabinet will resign after the country's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that rejected reforms to the justice system designed to facilitate Romania's entry to the European Union (EU) . The EU had mandated the reforms to create an "independent, impartial and efficient" justice system [...]

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will retry ex-Bank of America broker Theodore Sihpol. Sihpol was acquitted on 29 counts of fraud-related charges last month , but the jury deadlocked on 4 counts and the judge declared a partial mistrial, leaving Spitzer the choice to retry those 4 [...]

Leading Thursday's states brief, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today that interrogations of juvenile prisoners must be electronically recorded. In reversing a 2003 Court of Appeals decision the court stated that recording the interrogations by videotape or audio record will prevent disputes about police misconduct and provide an accurate record of the interrogation. The court [...]

An intellectual property infringement lawsuit by SCO Group against IBM will not go to trial until February 26, 2007, over two years later than originally scheduled. US District Judge Dale Kimball rescheduled the trial Thursday to allow the two sides to work through what is anticipated to be a lengthy discovery period. Judge Kimball also [...]

Hassan al-Turabi , a Sudanese Islamist leader freed last week after a 15-month detention in connection with an alleged coup plot, has spoke out against the country's Sudan's new constitution . He called the committee that drafted the constitution "not representative" of the people and complained that members of the current legislature were either appointed [...]