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Boxer Kevin Lerena, who was presented by prosecutors as one of the witnesses against Oscar Pistorius in his televised murder trial, said that the athlete asked a friend to take the blame of a shooting incident at a restaurant that happened less than a month before the fatal shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, Chron said in a report.

Several reports had postulated that the gold coins discovered by an anonymous couple in 2013 could have been the ones stolen by Chief Clerk Walter Dimmick from the US Mint in 1901, said CNN.

US Senator Mark Udall reprotedly implied in a letter addressed to President Barack Obama on Tuesday that the latter knew about the spying done by the Central Intelligence Agency on a Senate committee that has probed the federal agency's abuse practices.