News update: 61 yr old woman marries 8 yr old boyEight-year-old Sanele Masilela who got ‘married’ to a 61-year-old Helen Shabangu in Tshwane, South Africa has said he now feels like a husband a month after the union.The ceremony performed back in February is not legally binding and was just a ritual prompted by a conversation the schoolboy said he had had with his dead grandfather.‘The day w

A mother has faced severe criticism after leaving her baby in a car with a note while she went shopping.The unnamed woman left the newborn in the front seat of a locked car with a note that said ‘My mum’s in doing the shopping, call her if I need anything’, and her phone number.The incident took place outside the Pak ‘N Save supermarket in Poriru in New Zealand this weekend.The man who spo

Billy Ray Harris, a homeless man who garnered national attention for returning a woman’s diamond and platinum ring, reunited with his sister, left, on Sunday after 16 years apart."I never would've thought this," Billy Ray Harris of Kansas City, Mo., said during a joyous reunion with his siblings on the "Today" show on Sunday. "This was a total shock."Harris, 55, hadn't seen his relatives in nea

When shopkeeper Graham Walker opened the post he expected to find just bills.But one package was a £70 cream whipper stolen from his shop and returned at a cost of £3.50 by the guilt-ridden thief.Attached was a note that read ‘I stole this from your shop – sorry!’.‘I just have no idea how they did it or how they even got it in their pocket,’ shop owner Mr Walker from Yorkshire, UK told

Patrick Ncinane’s says a beautiful zombie used to clean his house for him at night. Patrick, of KwaNdokwendza near Port Elizabeth, SA , said he met his mystery lover just before midnight three Sundays ago.“I saw a beautiful woman standing under dim light. She was wearing jeans, white T-shirt, white high heel shoes and a white Alice band around her head," he said. “She was the most beautiful

Angry residents allegedly beat members of a gang they accused of being robbers and abductors. They managed to beat up a man and two women while six other suspects reportedly escaped.The suspects were saved by the police but not before they were stripped of their clothes.A man is reported to have been assaulted by the mob after handing the two females some clothes.It is alleged that the gang of nin

Authorities in Mexico say the bodies of seven men were found in plastic chairs placed along the side of a street in the drug-plagued state of Michoacan.The men were shot in the head with threat messages nailed to some of their chests using ice picks.Meanwhile another seven people, including three federal agents, were killed in neighbouring Guerrero.Michoacan's Attorney General's Office said in a s

This sleeping policeman could face a wake-up call from his bosses after apparently being caught napping on the job.A police officer, 26, was out on an operation but, after finishing his inquiries, he seemed to settle down for a little doze as he waited for colleagues to arrive.One of them took this embarrassing snap, which was posted on Facebook with the comment: “Expert scene management.”A co

A driver has been seriously injured after a red Audi TT careered off the road and ended up embedded in a house.Emergency services were called to the address in Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK to find the car stuck inside a ground floor window.A man believed to be in his 20s was removed from the vehicle and taken to James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth with serious head injuries. He has since been transfe

Johannesburg - A female motorist was arrested at her home after allegedly killing a pedestrian and fleeing the scene, Johannesburg metro police said on Sunday."[The JMPD] arrested a 24-year-old woman at her home in Radiokop last night, after she bumped and killed a male pedestrian along Northumberland Road in North Riding at about 21:30," said Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.The woman allegedl

Tokyo - A Japanese teenager who allegedly killed his mother and chopped her body into pieces has told police he simply did not like her, and wanted to know more about dissection, reports have said.The 19-year-old allegedly dismembered his mother's body in the bathroom, cutting her into at least 15 pieces using kitchen knives, the Sankei daily said on Saturday, citing unnamed police sources.The tee

A Pakistani court has annulled the forced marriage of a 14-year-old Christian girl to her Muslim abductor. Rafia Mansha was kidnapped in December and forced to convert to Islam.A two-year-old was among at least 250 children in the UK helped last year by a unit which tackles forced marriages. The two-year-old is thought be the youngest victim at risk of a forced marriage in the UK.Recent figures re

A new film Compliance, starring Dreama Walker and based on the sick 2004 hoax in Mount Washington, Kentucky, US has just opened.It tells the true story of a  hoax caller who posed as a policeman duped managers of more than 70 fast food outlets in 31 US states into strip-searching, humiliating and sexually abusing customers and staffFollowing the callers' instructions, assistant manager Summer

University of Alberta drama professor David Ley uses the sex toys to massage the throats of actors and singers."I know it's a bit different. I know there's a giggle factor, but it works. It relaxes tension in the larynx, it improves range and projection," he told MetroNews.ca.He was looking for an alternative to massaging the larynx by hand, for people who hate the feel of fingers on their throat,

When Dr Catherine Berry moved into a bus lane to give two speeding fire engines clear passage to their destination she never considered her actions would fall foul of the authorities.A bus lane camera snapped her moment of public spiritedness and duly despatched a penalty notice for £30.Outraged, the 38-year-old academic is now locked in a battle with Glasgow City Council to overturn the decision