OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the acquittal of a Saskatchewan woman who gave birth in a Walmart bathroom stall and left the newborn in a toilet. In a 5-2 split decision, the court ruled in favour of April Halkett, who was found not guilty in June 2009 of abandoning the baby boy two years earlier in the store in Prince Albert, Sask. Halkett testified at trial that she didn't know she was pregnant and left the store because she thought the child was dead. A store manager later pulled the baby from the toilet and he survived.

South Africa's star athlete Oscar Pistorius stands accused of killing his 29-year-old model girlfriend on Valentine's Day. Here are the some of the key points in his affidavit seeking bail at a court hearing on Tuesday: "I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premeditated murder, as I had no intention to kill my girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. "We were deeply in love and I could not be happier. I know she felt the same way. She had given me a present for Valentine's Day but asked me only to open it the next day.

South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius said Tuesday he fired at the door of the bathroom where his 29-year-old lover was hiding as he was "filled with horrible fear" that someone has sneaked into his home through an open window. "I fired shots at the door and shouted at the toilet," he said in a statement read out at a court hearing where he faces a charge of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. cm/sn/txw