On Wednesday, Penn State University announced that it would hosting a conference on child-sex abuse this fall, in an attempt to improve what seems to be irreparable damages caused to the institution's reputation by the former football coach Jerry Sandusky child-molestation case and the consequential cover-up by university officials.
In another shooting over a span of just weeks from the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shootout and the Colorado Dark Knight movie massacre, another gunman, who opened fire on the campus of Texas A&M University, was taken into to custody on Monday.
After the closing of the 2012 Summer London Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Monday that Belarus shot putter, Nadzeya Ostapchuk, was stripped of her gold medal after she tested positive of steroids. Ostapchuk was the eight athletes to be tested for drugs in the IOC drug-testing program and the first athlete to be stripped of a medal in the London Olympics.
CNN's TV show host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by CNN and Time for plagiarizing an article on gun-control in a Time column.
