A fugitive couple who sparked a nationwide US manhunt were captured at an Arizona campground after a forest ranger spotted them and their stolen vehicle hidden in the trees.

World number 21 Fernando Gonzalez will be out of action for 10 weeks with a knee injury, ruling him out of Chile's team for next month's Davis Cup quarter-final against Czech Republic.

Refreshed by a five-week break with his family in Argentina, big-hitting Ricardo Gonzalez made a superb return to the European Tour today.

A Spanish court will consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer said.

US Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on State charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

Controversial US attorney general Alberto Gonzales has announced he will resign his position as the United States’ top law enforcement official.

Alberto Gonzales, the first Hispanic attorney general in the US, announced his resignation today, driven from office after a wrenching stand-off with congressional critics over his honesty and competence.

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire from congressional Democrats, has resigned, senior Bush administration officials said today.

A United States Senate panel, following the House of Representatives' lead, has authorised subpoenas for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the sacking of federal prosecutors.

US President George Bush sent a long-distance message to Congress from the south-east tip of Mexico: The future of US relations south of the border hinges on immigration reform.

THE chief White House lawyer floated the idea of firing all 93 US attorneys at the start of President George W Bush’s second term, but the Justice Department objected and recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political firestorm two years later.

The chief White House lawyer floated the idea of firing all 93 US attorneys at the start of President George Bush’s second term, but the justice department objected and eventually recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political firestorm two years later.

THE alleged scheme to blow up passenger jets in mid-air was very close to execution and was “in some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot”, US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday.

An alleged scheme to blow up transatlantic passenger jets in mid-air using liquid explosives was in the final stages of planning and bore some of the hallmarks of an al-Qaida plot, US officials said today.

Former US president Jimmy Carter has criticised the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping programme, saying he believes the president has broken the law.

The Bush administration has a deliberate strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said today in its annual report on the treatment of prisoners.

Eminem protege Obie Trice was shot and wounded early today while driving on a freeway, police said.

PRESIDENT Bush, brushing aside bipartisan criticism in Congress, said yesterday he approved spying on suspected terrorists without court orders because it was “a necessary part of my job to protect” Americans from attack.

New York Times reporter Judith Miller today gave prosecutors details of a previously undisclosed conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, adding a new dimension to the criminal investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity.

The recent terrorist attacks in London and Egypt appear to be the work of al-Qaida, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday.

AN Egyptian envoy expected to become Iraq’s first Arab ambassador since its new government took office was kidnapped in Baghdad, weeks after arriving in the country, diplomats said yesterday.

US Attorney Alberto Gonzales today confirmed the US Administration had agreed to delay plans requiring European Union countries and others to adopt new passports with fingerprint and iris scan information by the end of October.

Jose Rivera-Sanchez, a fugitive since tunnelling out of a Puerto Rican prison 11 years ago, took a new name and found new lodgings in Connecticut.

AS a result of Ireland's disappointing finish to the international rugby season, the fortunes of Munster and Leinster on the European stage assume even more significance.

The man set to become the next US Attorney General vowed to abide by international treaties on prisoner treatment today.

President George Bush today proposed the first ever Hispanic Attorney General, nominating his long-time confidante Alberto Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft.

The Iraq prisoner abuse scandal shifted to the question of whether the Bush administration set up a legal foundation that opened the door for the mistreatment.

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US President George W Bush has agreed to allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to appear before an independent panel investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks following weeks of insisting that she would not testify.

THE White House backed down yesterday and agreed to let National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testify in public under oath before the commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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