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As Oscar Pistorius spent his first day behind bars this week, a suspected child rapist and murderer went on trial at the same Pretoria court in a case that has also provoked fierce debate about crime and punishment in post-apartheid South Africa.

A U.S. judge said Thursday she would order the assets of Texas entrepreneur Sam Wyly, who once made the Fortune 400 list, temporarily frozen after he filed for bankruptcy.

Two U.S. senators demanded Thursday that safety regulators issue a nationwide recall of automobiles with potentially defective air bags that can launch metal shards into occupants.