Law & Society

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted on a host of federal corruption charges - guilty of 24 criminal counts, including racketeering, extortion and bribery.

Oscar Pistorius' lawyers have filed an appeal in a South African court against bail restrictions imposed on the Para Olympian, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, according to papers released by the Pistorius family on Monday.

Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said it on Sunday. It is the worst kidnapping violence in decades, as reported by the Huffington Post. Nigeria's police, military, domestic spy service and presidency remained silent over the killings of the construction company workers, who were kidnapped February 16 from the northern Bauchi. The victims included four Lebanese, and one citizen apiece from Britain, Greece and Italy.