Cops arrested Elizabeth Garner, a former cheerleader for the Tennessee Titans, after she was accused of the offense.Garner followed the 12-year-old boy into a bathroom during his parents' house party, police have said.The boy's mom called police after he told her what had happened.Garner, 42, is a former cheerleader for the Tennessee Titans until 2009.The married blonde claims innocence.She told i

Twelve people have been killed and hundreds injured after freak hailstorms struck China.Officials say bad weather has caused millions of pounds worth of damage after hundreds of houses collapsed.The official Xinhua News Agency says nine people were killed in the city of Dongguan in southern Guangdong province after a Wednesday hailstorm. It says 272 others were injured from the storm.Three other

Injured students from Shehu Sanda Kyarimi Government Day Senior Secondary School, Nigeria have recounted the ordeal that left their teacher dead. “The two strangers (gunmen) just appeared at the door and it was like our malami (teacher) suspected something bad was coming. They called him outside and he was trying to go and then they fired at him," Hadiza, one of the victims of the Monday attack

Sherry West, of Brunswick, Georgia, US, says she was walking her 13-month-old son Antonio when she was allegedly robbed at gunpoint by De’Marquis Elkins, 17, and his 14-year-old accomplice. She had no money so one of the robbers told her, ‘I am going to kill your baby.’Cops are looking for two young male suspects, one between 13 and 15 years old, and the other possibly as young as 10, in the

Murder suspect Sibusiso Khumalo, 29 has gone on the run, taking his four-year-old son Manqoba with him.Police want to question the Zimbabwean about the horror killing of his wife and her sister in Ekurhuleni, South Africa and they are worried about Manqoba's safety.He disappeared with Manqoba after the bloodied bodies of his wife Nonkondzo Mncube, 23 and her sister Londela Zondi, 17 were found in

The Northern Cape provincial government in SA has apologised to a Rietfontein mother who was forced to give birth to her baby on the street two weeks ago, the SABC reported.A 24-hour health facility was closed at the time due to a salary dispute.Acting Premier Grizelda Cjiekella and Health MEC Mxolisi Sokatsha visited the mother, Veronica Brown, at her home."We came here to apologise to the parent

Johannesburg - The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has sent its condolences to the family of renowned author and thinker Chinua Achebe, who died in the United States.Achebe, working as a professor at Brown University, died on Thursday at the age of 82.Centre spokesperson Sello Hatang said in a statement on Friday that Achebe was "a great African writer and thinker"."Nelson Mandela referred to prof

A schoolgirl who posed as a goth boy called Scott to get a 16-year-old girl into bed was locked up for three years yesterday.Justine McNally, 18, was 13 when she first duped the girl online. Her victim was just 12.But it was on visits in 2011 that she lured the girl into sex sessions during which she thought she had lost her virginity.They had spoken about “what they wanted to do to each otherâ€

Chinua Achebe, one of the world's most celebrated writers and author of the classic novel Things Fall Apart, has died.He was 82 year old.He passed on last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Professor Achebe had been sick for some time.Achebe is best known for his classical novel "Things fall Apart". His last book, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, is still making

Billy McNeely reportedly suffered the injury following a fight at an arm wrestling match in April 2010 where he was stabbed five times with a 7.5cm knife.He has subsequently had the instrument removed but when he initially went to the hospital three years ago he was not given an x-ray.He returned with constant discomfort but was merely told he had nerve damage.It wasn’t until recently when he g

Robert Hohn, 42, and Shannon Watterson, 40, were charged with child abuse, conspiracy, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child Monday.The Delaware, US, couple was indicted for allegedly locking their 12-year-old son in his bedroom for three months.Hohn's son (and Watterson's stepson) had been locked in his room from September until he escaped in late November. The parents all

Nine female health workers in Kano, Nigeria were brutally killed while on a polio vaccination routine exercise on February 8.Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet.The killing of the women in Kano has reignited the controversy surrounding oral polio vaccination.However, this controversy is not peculiar to Nigeria alone. In 2003 the polio endemic was limited to only seven countries-

Ashley Nicole Williams, 19, is accused of assaulting her daughter, who is only two-months-old, at her Lebanon home over a five-day period.Staff at Mercy Hospital of Lebanon contacted cops on Mar. 7 after seeing signs of child abuse on the baby during a routine check-up.Williams reportedly admitted to the abuse, and told Laclede County Sheriff's Office deputies she was "curious" to know what being

An eighth-grader in the US fatally shot himself at his Detroit-area middle school Thursday just before the start of classes, police said.The unidentified male student at Davidson Middle School in Southgate was found in a bathroom by another student around 8:15 a.m.Police said he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and had used a .40-caliber handgun, according to ABC affiliate WXYZ.He w

A German court sentenced a 29-year-old married mother of two to nine years in jail on Thursday for killing five of her babies.She had concealed their births and immediately killing the five newborns between 2006 and 2012.The woman admitted her crimes during the trial in the northern town of Flensburg.Three of the infants were suffocated and two stabbed with scissors, the court concluded, finding t