Toshiba is to cut its interim chief executive's salary for the next two months by 90 percent, as the ninth member of the 16-seat executive board resigns. Last week an investigation showed the company had been overstating its profits. 
Congress is pushing forward legislation to allow guns at military recruiting centers following the recent shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where four Marines were shot dead by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized American citizen from Kuwait. 
The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service has told his colleagues from 64 nations that an important part of fighting the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS, or ISIL) was in exposing the terrorists’ propaganda and discrediting their leaders. 
The Minnesota dentist accused of killing a beloved Zimbabwean lion has gone into hiding after a social media storm that included death threats. In a statement to the press, he claimed the hunt was legal. Hunting tourists kill about 600 lions annually. 
Hollywood celebrities and former sex workers are at war with Amnesty International over the group’s proposal to recognize prostitution as a human right. 
Police investigating a horrible murder and mutilation case in St. Petersburg may have caught a killer with 10 victims on her conscience. The old woman reportedly logged her crimes in a diary, with at least one account matching a cold murder case. 
Tens of thousands of people who suffer from obesity and substance addictions could be stripped of their benefits if they neglect to accept state-provided treatment, it has emerged. 