A father who killed his five-week-old daughter after losing his temper while watching football on TV has been jailed for ten years.Mark Lackenby, 32, had bet Arsenal would defeat Barcelona in February 2011 during their Champions League clash.But when the Spaniards took the lead he shook Ruby, causing fatal brain injuries, Sheffield crown court heard.Lackenby also lied to paramedics when they arriv

News update: Zimbabwean man on the run in SA after killing wife & her sister Manqoba, who went missing with his father after the double killing of his mother and her sister has been found alive and safe. It appears Sibusiso Khumalo, 29, the man who is suspected of the killings, took Manqoba to his uncle in Honeydew, and the man passed him on to Sibusiso’s sister in Yeoville. She didn’t kno

Mildred Konze, 57, claims she lost R110 000 (US$11 800) in a scam by an estate agent. The nurse from Motherwell in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, SA told Daily Sun that she used her life savings to buy a four-roomed house.“I am wise when it comes to money. But this man’s lovely voice made me powerless.“I agreed to everything he said. My family believes he might have used powerful muthi agai

Durban - A final-year medical student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal who was apparently only weeks away from completing her degree was found raped and murdered in her room at the St Hillier Court student residence in Umbilo on Monday night.Provincial police spokesman, Captain Thulani Zwane, said today that a 27-year-old man had handed himself over to police in connection with the crime."He has

Police in northern New Jersey, US found an emaciated 4-year-old boy in an apartment Tuesday morning with the body of his mother, who appeared to have been dead about five days.The discovery was made Tuesday after a maintenance worker reported a bad odour coming from the apartment. The door was ajar but locked with a chain.The boy told police he tried to get food from the refrigerator but couldn't

Immigration official Brighton Mavhiya, 27, allegedly raped a border jumper who had been deported from South Africa. The incident occurred at around 1 am on Monday at the International Organisation of Migration Reception and Support Centre.The suspect had been deployed to IOM where he conducted screening of the illegal immigrants with other security agents.Insp Ndebele said Mavhiya entered the woma

A suspected armed robber wept in court last week and took off his t-shirt showing a bruised back to the magistrate hearing his case, accusing the police of ill-treating him.Sweetwell Munyonga is reportedly part of a three-man gang that fled to Botswana after committing a spate of armed robberies involving more than US$30 000 in Harare.Munyonga, who is facing three counts of armed robbery, last wee

Zvenyika Bhasera, 42, from Mundzingwa village, Zimbabwe allegedly struck his wife, Vongai Muonde, 36 with an iron bar on the head after finding her busy feeding another man in a secluded bushy area.Bhasera who was allegedly watching the drama from a nearby hide-out was incensed after he saw his wife taking food to her alleged lover at their usual love nest in the village.Bhasera then allegedly saw

Teachers at a special needs school were told to give razor blades to a troubled student so he or she could self-harm in a ‘safe and controlled manner’, it has been reported.The school’s headteacher and principal decided it was the best way to help the vulnerable pupil.Now an investigation is under way into the move at Unsted Park School — which teaches boys and girls aged between seven an

A series of car ads, including one showing women bound and gagged in the trunk of a Ford driven by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has prompted Internet outrage in India and prompted an apology from Ford India.The ads, uploaded on an industry website, were created by individuals within JWT India, a unit of the world’s biggest advertising group WPP. They did not go through the n

A 40-year-old-man in Nigeria has been arrested for allegedly hiring two men to rape  his two younger sisters in Ijebu-Ososa.The suspect was said to have been arrested with the two allegedly paid rapists after they had raped and robbed the two ladies who are 16 and 18 years.According to the police the man "gave the two suspects N80,000 to harass, molest and threaten his sisters who had disagre

Amanda Knox, now 25 and living in Seattle, will have to return to Italy to be retried for the 2007 murder of her roommate, a court ruled.The highest criminal court in Italy has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox and has ordered a new trial.An appeals court in Florence must re-hear the case against the American woman and her Italian ex-husband for the 2007 murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kerche

Sebengwane Ngobeni, 87 from Chiawelo in Soweto was admitted to Leratong Hospital in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, last week. When her family visited her on Saturday, she was fine. Her grandson, Patrick Mabasa, said on Sunday two from a funeral parlour had told him his grandmother had died and he should call them to make funeral arrangements. But after they left, he remembered that they had

A policeman is battling for life after being struck several times with a machete and an axe while trying to arrest suspected illegal gold panners.Sergeant Shorai Murimakamwe, who is based in Kadoma, Zimbabwe was following up on a report that Evans Hove and his brother Lawrence were threatening people with machetes at Gomba nightclub. Sgt Murimakamwe was struck several times on the legs with an iro

It looks like a chicken and acts like a chicken – but the father of a fledgling bred by scientists is actually a duck.Researchers have successfully used one species to produce another using a pioneering technique that could one day help bring extinct animals back to life.A male duck embryo was injected with germ cells from a chicken – giving it the DNA needed to produce the same sperm as a roo