WETASKIWIN, Alta. - Three young people involved in the shooting death of a five-year-old boy on an Alberta reserve have received the maximum youth sentence for manslaughter. The teens took turns firing a rifle at a home on the Samson Cree reserve south of Edmonton in July 2011. One of the bullets hit Ethan Yellowbird in the head as he slept in his bed. Court heard two of the youths fired bullets into the home and one fired a shot over the house. The three, who were 13, 16 and 17 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty last fall to manslaughter.

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday granted bail to former chairman Pakistan Steel Mills, Moeen Aftab Sheikh who was accused in a corruption case that caused a loss of Rs22billion to Pakistan Steel.A division bench headed by Justice Maqbool Baqar granted him post arrest bail in the sum of Rs5million and restrained him from leaving the city.

The Anti-Narcotics Court on Friday initiated the process to declare the two accused as Proclaimed Offenders (POs) in ephedrine quota case as after they could not be arrested by the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF).Control of Narcotics Substance Court (CNSC) Special Judge Arshad Mehmood Tabbasum directed his process server to advertise in national and international media that former Secretary Health Khushnod Khan Lashari and Anjum Shah, the alleged man of Makhdoom Shihabuddin, wanted in the illegal allotment of ephedrine quota case.The court had issued non-bailable arrest warrants o

South AFrican athlete Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend, is likely to flee as he knows a long prison term is "almost guaranteed", prosecutors argued Friday as a judge prepared to decide whether to release the star sprinter on bail. Top prosecutor Gerrie Nel demanded bail be denied, saying Pistorius has the money, means and motive to flee his native South Africa. "He hasn't said so, but he must think that conviction is likely. He must realise that a long term of imprisonment is almost guaranteed," he told the court.