Topping Tuesday's international brief, leaders from the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change have filed the first of nearly a dozen legal challenges to the validity of the March 31 elections in Zimbabwe . MDC Legal Affairs Minister David Coltart said that the first legal challenge had been filed Tuesday before the election court [...]

The RIAA announced Tuesday that it intends to sue hundreds of individual college students accused of illegally distributing music and movies across Internet2 , a super-fast computer network connecting universities and used for internet research. RIAA executives said it will file federal copyright lawsuits Wednesday against 405 students at 18 colleges with access to Internet2, [...]

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 enough votes to block the amendment. Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper argued that the proposed legislation "fails to define marriage as the [...]

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 their customers. Read the NYSE press release. Read the SEC press release and administrative proceeding release . The [...]

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 Karon Bowdre indicated that she would grant a defense motion to bar jurors from hearing evidence about Scrushy's sworn [...]

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 , who died in custody in July 2003, so that an autopsy could be performed to investigate allegations [...]

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 databases had been breached 59 times with stolen passwords, with personal information including social security numbers and addresses possibly stolen. [...]

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 made fighting corruption one of his top priorities after being elected in October 2004. The two deputy ministers, [...]

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 "Woman Hating" , which began her advocacy on the harm to women caused by pornography. Dworkin argued that pornography [...]

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 is expected later today, when the indictments will be unsealed. AP has more. 2:10 PM ET [...]