An 11-day-old baby was on Tuesday stolen after the mother was lured by an unknown woman to Harare city centre in Zimbabwe.The incident occurred at a supermarket along Fourth Street when Ms Cecilia Nongwe, the baby's mother, went inside to buy powdered milk.Acting Harare provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Tarirai Dube confirmed the incident."The previous day, Ms Nongwe was approache

A UK man, Mick Philpott, has been sentence to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years for starting a fire that killed six children.His wife and co-conspirator Mairead Philpott and their friend Paul Mosley were both sentenced to 17 years for helping the plot. They will not be eligible for release until they have served at least half their sentences.

Thieves in South Africa have left about 250 000 people without water.They have been stealing expensive borehole pumps for eight years in the Greater Giyani Municipality in Limpopo.Although the municipality sends water trucks to some villages twice a week, many people don’t have enough water to wash and cook.Five machines have been stolen in Muyexe in the past five months.The municipality has s

Five-year-old Kamohelo Matsaneng's family were kept waiting for four hours in the rain by the side of a busy road where he had been knocked down by a taxi.They tried to keep him dry with bits of plastic because a mortuary van kept them waiting.His 18-year-old cousin Tumelo had collected him from his creche in Sebokeng's zone 3, Gauteng, SA.Tumelo had to take Kamohelo from under the taxi and put h

A pastor and director of Light of Hope Orphanage at Akute, Ogun State, Mr. Atunde, was on Wednesday arrested in Onikan, Nigeria for allegedly raping two minors at his orphanage.Police began investigating Atunde after receiving a petition from Project Alert against him.Project Alert, a non-governmental organisation, said the petition was prompted by a teacher of the school which the minors attended

A British jury on Wednesday convicted two men of plotting to rob and kill international pop star Joss Stone.32-year-old Junior Bradshaw and 35-year-old Kevin Liverpool were convicted on Wednesday at Exeter Crown Court on charges of conspiracy to murder, to cause grievous bodily harm and to rob. They had denied the charges.Prosecutors said the pair were arrested in June 2011 close to Stone's home i

A Brazilian doctor charged with murdering seven hospital patients - and under investigation for hundreds more suspicious deaths - insisted on her innocence outside a courthouse Monday."I have confidence in justice. Truth takes time and it will appear," said Virginia Soares de Souza in brief remarks to reporters after attending a hearing in Parana state.De Souza, 56, who was freed on bail on March

A 16-year-old schoolgirl and a 42-year-old man in South Africa are being charged with sexual offences relating to the manufacturing, distribution and possession of child pornography, after they sent naked pictures as well as videos of sex acts to each other by cellphone.The girl's parents, who live on a farm outside Virginia, found the graphic photographs as well as conversations and the number of

Pretoria - A Johannesburg lawyer who crashed into a group of pedestrians, killing five people, while allegedly drunk and speeding in his BMW X6 near Sun City, appeared in court on Tuesday.The 35-year-old lawyer's name was not revealed, Beeld reported on Wednesday.He was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the scene of the accident in Ledig, which is about 5km from Sun City.The lawye

Condemned killer Steven Smith's argument for mercy isn't an easy one. Smith acknowledges he intended to s*xually assault his girlfriend's 6-month-old daughter but says he never intended to kill the baby.The girl, Autumn Carter, of Mansfield, died because Smith was too drunk to realise his assault was killing the child, Smith's attorneys were telling the Ohio Parole Board on Tuesday. And Ohio, US,

An 80-year-old woman fell down an apartment building trash chute.Florence Banta is believed to have fallen down a 17th story trash chute in a 48-story Chicago high-rise in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood. She was last heard from Saturday evening, missing Sunday morning and found dead among garbage at the bottom of the chute Monday morning."My mother was so cautious - she was risk-averse," Bant

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Happy Sindane, Mpumalanga police said on Tuesday."The 58-year-old suspect was arrested at his home in KwaMhlanga on Tuesday and charged with murder," said spokesperson Colonel Leonard Hlathi.Sindane was found dead in Tweefontein, next to KwaMhlanga, South Africa, on Monday.Police said Sindane appeared to have been stoned to death.Sindane ros

A young boy died minutes after an Easter Sunday church service when he picked up a gun and accidentally shot himself in the chest, police have said.Roderick Paige, who was just four-years-old, died from the gunshot wound at a relative's house in Mobile, Alabama.His older brother was reportedly in the same room and saw his sibling pull the trigger — and then ran into the kitchen to tell everyone

Geek.com warns anyone who owns a new BlackBerry Z10, that the BlackBerry Messenger integration will tell all your friends (and family members in BBM contacts when you're watching videos on the web.Apparently BBM keeps tabs on the BlackBerry media player and it pushes updates when a new track or video gets played. In BlackBerry 10, however, videos that you come across while you browse the web also

Chinese student Zeng Jia, staged her own service because she wanted to be alive so she could 'enjoy it'.The 22-year-old forked out a princely sum for the coffin alone, decorating it with row after row of flowers.She also paid for a photographer and a team of make-up artists to make her appear more 'dead' as she lay in the casket with her favourite doll on her chest.After an hour lying in state as