US President Barack Obama's bid to save his proposal to spare millions of immigrants in the country illegally from deportation and give them work permits hit a wall on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case testing the limits of presidential power.
India's growing cases of mouth and throat cancer prompts the government to issue a new ban on the manufacture and sale of all forms of chewing tobacco. Violators will be fined 300,000 rupees and gets imprisoned for up to six months.
The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says it will take at least two years to implement the IOC proposals to change the method of drug testing. He also seeks more funding for the doping watchdog to do its job.
Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be sentenced in June 2016 for the murder of model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013 in his Pretoria home. The 29-year old is best known as the “Blade Runner” for his carbon-prosthetic legs he used to race.
