Oscar Pistorius' neighbor, University of Pretoria economics professor Michele Burger, was the first witness heard by the court to testify regarding the events leading to the fatal shooting of model Reeva Steenkamp, USA Today said.
Ministers of the European Union warned Russia that it will be receiving sanctions should it continue to be aggressive against leaderless Ukraine after the latter seized border posts in Crimea, the Wall Street Journal said.
In its efforts to address public outcry about the knife attack allegedly by members of the ethnic Uighur separatist movement on unsuspecting migrant workers at a Kunming train station, Chinese president Xi Jinping had ordered authorities to crack down perpetrators of the grisly crime.
Videos of convicted felon Bernard Madoff about doing fraud on Wall Street has been played in a federal court today to help bolster the case of the five former employees who were accused of conspiring with the former billionaire to dupe $17.5 billion in total from investors, Bloomberg said in a report.
