A massive power explosion on Monday at University of California, Berkley left one person hospitalized for minor burns and forced a wide evacuation on campus last week. Power was later restored to most of the buildings at the school, however eleven had remained without power on Tuesday and some classes were also canceled.
Embattled former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's decision to order five ministers from his People of Freedom Party to resign from the newly-formed coalition of Enrico Letta's cabinet has plunged Italy into political chaos, leaving the euro-zone's third-largest economy without a functioning government.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a law suit North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over new voting laws, The Associated Press reported. Calling the laws "restrictive," Attorney General Eric Holder argued that the state took "extremely aggressive steps to curtail the voting rights of African-Americans. This is an intentional step to break a system that was working and it defies common sense," he said at a press conference on Monday.
Amanda Knox's retrial began Monday in Florence, Italy over the 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher while they were on their study abroad program together. The 26-year-old who, along with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, were acquitted of murder in 2011, expressed great uneasiness in interviews about returning to a country where she had spent four years in jail. She was not present as the retrial began on Monday.
