Mandlenkosi Xaba, 42, from Thubelitsha in Thabong, near Welkom in the Free State, South Africa said he was shocked by an attack on him that occurred on Friday night.When the attackers slashed him with pangas, he thought they wanted his money – but they didn't rob him.As he lay on the ground, they sucked blood from his wounds!"It's unbelievable! They behaved like vampires!" said Mandlenkosi.Sp

Two women who allegedly incited a 12-year-old girl to start an inappropriate relation with a 45-year-old convict have appeared in court. Talent Chirenda (20) a student at the University of Zimbabwe and Tatenda Chitima appeared before Mr Musaiona Shotgame charged with procuring. They were each granted US$200 bail.The man in question is former David Whitehead Textiles chief executive Edwin Chimanye

Pinching pennies anywhere possible with your wedding plans? It looks like this crafty Aussie bride was, too. She made a couture wedding dress for just $36.  Stephanie Watson and her other half collected over 10,000 bread clips. And those little red, white and yellow pieces of plastic worked as lovely scale pieces to embroider her dress with. The resulting effect was a 15 pound, stunning scal

Rickesha Burns, a 21-year-old Phoenix woman, was jailed late last month after she allegedly shoved a vibrator so far up her 2-year-old son's rectum, surgery was required to get it back out.According to Phoenix Police, officers were dispatched to Burns' residence after receiving a report of 'unknown trouble' at her home.When officers arrived on the scene, they found Burns' son "crying hysterically"

A manhunt is under way in Calaveras County, US, for the person who stabbed an 8-year-old girl to death in her family's home on Saturday.The incident occurred in the rural community of Valley Springs, about 60 miles south of Sacramento. According to Sheriff's officials, the girl's brother came upon an intruder in the family's home at around noon.After the man had run off the brother discovered his

Phillip John Garcia, 41, was jailed after he allegedly took all his clothes off and crawled through his neighbour's doggy door and attempted to have sex with the woman who lived at the residence.According to the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, Garcia's neighbour was preparing to go to sleep for the night at about 9:30 p.m. when she heard a knock on her bedroom door.The woman, whose husband ha

Brittany Angelique Sonnier, a 20-year-old Arizona woman was  jailed back in 2012 after she allegedly confessed bestiality with her family's dogs.According to Lake Havasu City Police, an investigation was launched after Sonnier, 20 at the time, told her boyfriend that she had been sleeping with her family's dogs since the age of 13.The arrest report further alleged that Sonnier had trained the

Danish scientists claim they're on the brink of a "promising" breakthrough to cure HIV.Researchers at the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark said they're now conducting clinical trials on humans using a "novel strategy" that has worked in lab tests, London's The Telegraph reported.The announcement comes just days after the U.S. government said it is halting a large study on creating an AIDS vac

The fugitive owner of the Bangladeshi factory complex which collapsed, killing at least 360 people, was arrested today on the border with India.Mohammed Sohel Rana had been in hiding since Wednesday's disaster at the Rana Plaza, in Savar in the suburbs of the capital Dhaka.However, government minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak announced this morning that he had been captured a day after factory bosses

Is time real, or the ultimate illusion?Most physicists would say the latter, but Lee Smolin challenges this orthodoxy in his new book, "Time Reborn" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2013).In a conversation with Duke University neuroscientist Warren Meck, theoretical physicist Smolin, who's based at Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, argued for the controversial idea that time i

A 26-year-old Karoi farmer was recently arrested for allegedly killing his father over a US$40 debt.Phillip Katedza of Nyarenda Farm, Zimbabwe has since appeared before Karoi resident magistrate Mr Robson Finsin, who immediately recommended a mental examination.The court heard that Phillip sold his father, Mr Ephraim Katedza, a bicycle. Mr Katedza is said to have paid part of the money with a view

ZIMBABWE - Karoi magistrates' court officials, including the magistrate, Mrs Nyaradzo Ringisayi, were forced to scurry for cover last Friday after an assault suspect, who claims to be a spirit medium, brandished a rod after going into a "trance". The suspect, Clifford Mhaka, refused to be tried, claiming he was possessed by the spirit of Chief Nyatsimba Mutota. With snuff in one hand and brandis

Two Spanish men were apparently so desperate for cash they decided to make a false £2.5 million insurance claim by cutting off their hands.Unfortunately for the alleged fraudsters they were found to have done too good of a job.The medics said one of the men, who were claiming to have been maimed in a car accident, had a cut that was too clean.The hapless man, who has not been named, thought he'd

Police confirmed that Wilbert Makuyana (84) of Takunda Village in Zimbabwe was found hanging from a tree on April 16.It is alleged that Makuyana, who is a member of an apostolic sect and his sons were at loggerheads over evil spirits that were allegedly haunting the family. David Makuyana, the deceased's son reportedly asked his father to accompany him to a local traditional healer who had demande

An Australian company is hoping to change the way we shop for underwear with the launch of a new range of slinky lingerie - for men.HommeMystere says its range, which includes padded bras, lacy teddies and frilly thongs, was inspired by the lack of adventurous underwear available for men.And the company claims Britain is its second largest market after the US as men have been rushing to order the