Roman Catholic Church's William Lynn, who was the first US Church official to be convicted in a criminal court for covering up sex abuse claims, has had his child endangerment conviction reversed its decision by the Philadelphia Court of Appeals.
A judge in Saudi Arabia recommended that Raif Badawi, an imprisoned blogger, go before a high court to face an apostasy charge, which would carry the death penalty if convicted, CNN reported. Ensaf Haidar, Badawi's wife, "initially told CNN on Wednesday that her husband had been sentenced to death. She later later clarified that a judge... recommended he be tried for denouncing Islam,"
Off-duty Los Angeles bomb squad officer Don Thompson rescued a 72-year-old man from his burning station wagon after a freeway crash on Christmas, The Associated Press reported. Thompson was treated for "serious injuries, including first and second degree burns plus smoke inhalation and abrasions after pulling a man in his 60s from his burning vehicle Wednesday,"
Recently freed after serving more than ten years in a Russian jail, former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky appealed to western governments to help him campaign for the release of other political prisoners.
