France has sent military advisers to Niger's southern border with Nigeria to help coordinate military action by regional powers fighting the Islamist group Boko Haram, a French army official said on Thursday.
A U.S. judge Thursday urged transvaginal mesh device makers and the women suing them to work harder to resolve their tens of thousands of lawsuits in one of the biggest U.S. mass torts in history.
Washington state senators held a hearing on Thursday to consider banning the increasingly controversial capture or holding of killer whales for entertainment.
A former SAC Capital Advisors LP portfolio manager avoided prison on Thursday after helping federal authorities win a guilty plea and $1.8 billion in financial penalties from the hedge fund run by billionaire Steven A. Cohen.
