WASHINGTON - A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board. The ruling by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia came on the same day that a Senate panel considered a slate of five nominees for full terms on the labour board. Senate Republicans said Thursday they would oppose two of the nominees — Sharon Block and Richard Griffin — because they currently sit on the board as recess appointments.

HALIFAX - A man accused of confining and sexually assaulting a teenage boy at a home in rural Nova Scotia will plead guilty to some charges in the case, his lawyer said Thursday. Mike Taylor said in an interview that David James Leblanc will enter guilty pleas on a number of charges when he appears next Thursday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Bridgewater. Taylor declined to specify which charges Leblanc intends to plead guilty to, but said the matter would be finalized when the pleas are entered.

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear Tyler Lee Nolet's appeal of his second-degree murder conviction for clubbing another man to death with a toilet-tank lid. Nolet said he was acting in self-defence when he bashed Kenny Wong with the porcelain lid in a Calgary bar in 2008. The two men knew each other from a prior altercation and Nolet told the court he felt threatened when he spotted Wong at the bar. But the trial judge said Nolet was likely out for revenge over his previous run-in with Wong.

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt surrendered Thursday to serve three-and-a-half years in jail for illegal possession of weapons, in a case linked to deadly bombings in Mumbai 20 years ago. Accompanied by family and friends, the 53-year-old was greeted by a crowd of journalists at the gates of his home before travelling in a convoy of cars to a court in the city's south, where another huge crowd swarmed around his vehicle.