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On Thursday, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan announced his resignation due to rising complications with his six-point peace plan in solving the Syria crisis. Annan told CNN News that “increasing militarization on the ground" and "the clear lack of unity with in the UN Security Council”

Judge Edward Burmila dismissed a petition for mistrial in the Drew Peterson case, Peterson is being charged with first-degree murder of wife # 3 Kathleen Savio. Despite the confidence of Joel Brodsky, Peterson's attorney, who told reporters last month that the case was bound to be a mistrial, Judge Brumila disagreed.

On Thursday, in the biggest patent infringement lawsuit between tech titans Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., Apple urged U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh that Samsung deliberately leaked material that was dismissed from court evidence in order to get an upper hand in the case.