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By Mary Lloyd, ABC News A box of Sudafed PE sinus pressure and pain medicine containing phenylephrine is displayed for sale. Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP An Australian law firm has filed a class action against global pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing it of selling medicines known to be ineffective. Lawyers at JGA Saddler allege the company falsely stated medications such as Codral Day and Night, Sudafed PE and Benadryl PE relieve congestion. The action relates to tablets containing phenylephrine, a substance which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year declared was not an effective nasal decongestant when taken in tablet form. Johnson & Johnson's advertising for Codral Day and Night states, "Phenylephrine helps to relieve blocked and runny noses"...

By Christian Edwards and Marcelo Medeiros, CNN Police officers and emergency units stand at the entrance of the "Precko" primary school after a stabbing attack in Zagreb. Photo: AFP A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to be a former student, entered a first-grade classroom at the Prečko Elementary School early Friday morning and attacked the teacher and several children with a knife, CNN affiliate N1 reported. Helicopters have been transporting the wounded to hospitals across the city. The teacher sustained life-changing injuries and is in critical condition, the Sveti Duh Hospital said. "The attacker is under police custody. The injured pe...

By Ashley Tang, Reuters Photo: AFP Last search for Malaysia Airlines plane ended in 2018 Malaysia to pay $70 million if substantive wreckage found Exploration firm confident of credibility of new data Malaysia has said wreckage vital to uncover what happened Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister says, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014. "Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin," Transport Minister Anthony Loke told a press conference on Friday (local time). "We hope this time will be ...