Law & Society

Oscar Pistorius' neighbor, University of Pretoria economics professor Michele Burger, was the first witness heard by the court to testify regarding the events leading to the fatal shooting of model Reeva Steenkamp, USA Today said.

According to multiple reports cited by The Global Times, the brother and his wife, and the son of former Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee member Zhou Yongkang are being investigated for alleged corruption in China.

In its efforts to address public outcry about the knife attack allegedly by members of the ethnic Uighur separatist movement on unsuspecting migrant workers at a Kunming train station, Chinese president Xi Jinping had ordered authorities to crack down perpetrators of the grisly crime.