A decision of a Lafayette, Louisiana court jury has ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co and Eli Lilly & Co to pay a total of $9 billion in punitive damages to complainant Terrence Allen, who claimed the Japanese drug Actos had caused him to develop bladder cancer.
The Philippines' Supreme Court had approved today several parts of the country's Reproductive Health Act, which gained controversy as conservative groups led by the Catholic Church had renounced the bill due to its mandate on reducing population, Bloomberg said.
Although SeaWorld has remained silent about its next moves should a California measure that would ban the captivity of killer whales in their parks will be passed, it blames the negative publicity it is getting from a documentary film that allegedly distorts facts about animals kept in captivity titled "Blackfish," the Guardian said.
Although singer Chris Brown has arrived in Washington for his April 17 assault hearing, a spokesman for the US Marshals Service said that the singer will be locked up and jail and will be escorted to his impending trial.
