The accounting giant, PwC, agreed to pay $55 million to settle claims by the victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. PwC is alleged to fail to audit properly the books of Fairfield Greenwich Group, the biggest operator of Madoff's feeder funds.
121 immigrants who have lost their asylum cases in the US are being deported back to South America, including the mothers and the children, much to the protest of immigration rights and Latino groups.
A new guideline on alcohol intake reveals that any amount of alcohol is unsafe. Under the new guide, men are advised to drink 14 units of alcohol or less per week, while pregnant women should not drink at all as precaution.
A new law called the Scarlet Letter Tag Bill is being proposed in Mississippi as penalty for DUI repeat offenders. A study suggests that similar laws in other states do not significantly reduce DUI death rates.
