In the fourth day of hearing of the murder charges against celebrated Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, a doctor testified to court on how he found the athlete a few moments after addressing the screams purportedly by a woman believed to have been Reeva Steenkamp, BBC said.
Eight Democrat senators joined with their Republican counterparts to vote against Debo Adegbile, Barack Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The opposition - a huge rebuke to the president - was so strong largely from Adegbile's participation in an appeal filed on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally known prisoner who had been convicted for the 1981 slaying of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer.
The presiding judge on Rachel Canning's trial to seek financial support from her parents on the basis of being improperly emancipated rejected the 18 year-old's demands as the outcome of the case could set a precedent to children in the future suing their parents for wants aside from their needs.
The extended visa ban by the US government on officials and other perpetrators had made Russia unhappy according to a former ambassador and said that Russia could retaliate with its own sanctios, The New York Times said in a report.
