A South African professor who is vice-chancellor for the University of the Free State allegedly said he wishes the former president Nelson Mandela 'would die'.The Beeld newspaper reports that Jansen asked a group of about 250 students gathered on the campus for a leadership summit on Sunday: "don't you also wish he would die?".The newspaper reported that the students were noticeably shocked when

A-one-and-a-half-year-old Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe toddler last week drowned in a bucket.Acting Harare provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Tarirai Dube confirmed the incident."We  recieved a report of the death of a-one-and-a-half-year-old toddler from Unit N in Chitungwiza who fell in a bucket filled with water while playing in the toilet and drowned," she said.According to repor

While some pet owners may think dressing up their prized pooch in Louis Vuitton brings a little canine chic to the high street, dog lovers in China are taking it a step further by dressing their animals in stockings and high heels.In a craze that is apparently sweeping across the nation, proud owners have been inundating Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, with pics of their dogs dolled up i

Quaint Humberstone Road in Cambridge is the latest street to find itself in the spotlight for a bizarre road marking after what could be Britain’s shortest set of double yellow lines were painted – measuring only 13 inches (33cm).The lines, which sit between two parking bays on the side of the road, have been called ‘ridiculous’ by residents – who pointed out that even some remote contro

The foremost qualification for a posting to Pandola police station is "saatwik" (pure) character, declares Gokul Suman, former sarpanch (leader) of Pandola gram sabha in Sheopur. Those who don't fit the bill, Suman says with all seriousness, "cannot last a day in the building known to be haunted".Suman has seen many men in khaki walk in and then walk away in the past year. The last one was driven

A 23-year-old British woman from Manchester, UK, was found dead with several stab wounds in a houseboat in Dal Lake in India on Saturday morning.The woman was allegedly killed by a Dutch tourist who was later arrested while on the run. Police said the body of the victim, Sarah Elizabeth Groves was found in a pool of blood and suspected that the accused Dutchman, Richard Caliper Dennis, may have s

A college student in India was allegedly beaten to death by his brother and two cousins for misbehaving with a 15-year-old girl, also his cousin, at Kilkathirpur village near Kancheepuram on Friday night.Police said U Gnana Kumar, 20, a second year BSc Zoology student of a private college, was alone at home on Friday night and had too much to drink. In a drunken stupor, he asked his uncle's daught

Police in Nigeria's Adamawa state say attackers stormed the home of the state's deputy governor in Midlu Saturday, killing 11 people.Some victims were shot, while others had their throats cut. Police have given few details, but say it appears it was a targeted attack. Witnesses report hearing the gunmen shouting out names of their victims during the assault.No one has claimed responsibility and no

A 47-year-old man has been charged for the attempted murder of his elderly parents.An 83-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man were assaulted in their home near Wollongong, south of Sydney.Police arrived at the property in Mount Pleasant to find the woman unconscious with serious head injuries and her husband with head and leg injuries.The pair were taken to Wollongong Hospital, where the woman re

A Syrian airstrike on a Kurdish district in Aleppo has left 15 people dead, including nine children, an opposition group says."The number of people killed in an airstrike on the western edges of Sheikh Maksoud has risen to 15... among them were nine children aged under 18 years and three women," the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The watchdog says Al-Hajar al-Aswad in south

Mr Aminu Ado Yarima, in Nigeria on Wednesday claimed that the devil, sometime in December last year, deceived him into impersonating the National Security Adviser, NSA, Mr Sambo Dasuki.Aminu said the devil commanded him to dupe four sitting Ministers under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration. He bought a phone which he used and called the personal phone numbers of the Ministers. Sensing

A stranger offered to buy food and clothes and even give a job to beggar Victoria Muyambo, 22.They took a train from Tshwane to Johannesburg, South Africa.Victoria, who was told to stand at the entrance of a supermarket in Joburg while the "good Samaritan" went inside to shop with Victoria's month-old baby boy.She was meant to buy clothes and food and Victoria said she was surprised when the woman

A businessman who repeatedly raped his minor daughter for three years was sent to 14 days judicial custody by an Indian court in Gurgaon on Friday afternoon.The accused, whose companies' annual turnover is over $200million, was arrested on Thursday after his daughter lodged a complaint of sexual assault in the Sushant Lok police station.The police registered a case against the accused father unde

A 27-year-old documentary maker, Lee Halpin has been found dead while sleeping rough in freezing temperatures to highlight the plight of the homeless.Halpin had planned to spend a week living on the streets in his home city of Newcastle.He began the project on Sunday but was apparently found dead three days later in a derelict building in the West End of the city.How he died has not yet been confi

One driver got more than he bargained for when he tried to dodge charges.The driver apparently thought he could escape paying by parking at night while the multi-storey was being refurbished, with a sign stating it was not in use.But after trying to drive out via the unmarked ramp the car was left dangling over the edge of an eight foot drop.Having made a hasty retreat, the owner left the car to b