The market share of the world's largest door-to-door seller of cosmetics, Avon, has saw a decline, thanks to an almost five-year probe by the US Department of Justice and US Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations of bribery.
On the day of the anniversary where he was indicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, South African Paralympian gold medalist Oscar Pistorius expressed his remorse and pain to Steenkamp's family and friends on his website.
The lawsuit against the state of Virginia's ban on recognizing same-sex marriage is just one of the many legal challenges filed by individuals in several US states on the basis that it violates the fundamental freedom to marry someone of your own choice.
U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. ordered on Wednesday that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should stand trial on November 3, "rejecting defense lawyers' arguments that they need nearly a year long that to shift through thousands of pieces of evidence and interview witnesses around the globe as they prepare for the complex death penalty case," The Boston Globe reported.
