A federal judge in New Orleans said he expected to seat a jury, which will hear the retrial of David Warren, the former police officer who shot and killed a man outside a strip mall after Hurricane Katrina

Ukraine's government held onto power after the opposition lost its attempt to topple the government by parliamentary means as a no-confidence vote failed by a substantial margin, Reuters reported. Protesters however, vowed to soldier on with their demonstrations, even as President Fedorovyc Yanukovich was not in the country.

Preeminent singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is facing preliminary charges by French authorities for comments he made during a 2012 Rolling Stone magazine interview in which he equated Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan