Cape Town - A Grade 11 Cape Town pupil was stabbed to death on a school bus, the Cape Times reported on Wednesday.An 18-year-old, also believed to be a pupil, was arrested on a charge of murder after the stabbing on Tuesday morning.Western Cape education department spokesperson Paddy Attwell said Uviwe Mzingelwa, 17, a pupil at Ned Doman High in Athlone, was involved in a fight with other passenge

The world’s first ‘hotel’ made entirely from cake is to welcome guests in Soho, London, for one night only.A popcorn-filled bath is just one of the tasty treats on offer at the cake hotel.Visitors will be encouraged to eat their way through windows and walls clad with 2,000 macaroons, a rug made from 1,081 meringues hand-stitched together, 20kg (44lb) of marshmallow garlands, windowsills bui

Police Officers Lawrence Mateva, 24 and Richard Majome, 29 are jointly charged with Dilesh Nguwaya, 29, a former member of the police special constabulary, and two civilians, Ishmael Kahwema, 29 and Taurai Chitapa, 26 with theft of 723 grammes of gold worth more than US$35 000.Mateva and Majome are stationed at Mabelreign Police Station, Zimbabwe.They were granted US$100 bail each and were ordered

UK - Greater Manchester Police are urging people to come forward after a 21-year-old man was raped and robbed in Manchester city centre.The attack happened on Spear Street near London Road, at about 03:00 GMT on Saturday.The Police said the man was walking home when he was threatened by another man with a bottle who asked for his mobile phone and cash.He was then raped by the attacker, who was whi

A 25-year-old woman in Rajasthan in India committed suicide after being raped by a witch doctor.The accused has been arrest.According to police, the incident occurred at Pahari village of Jaipur district, some 150km from here.A senior police officer told IANS, "The victim had approached Mamraj Kumar who claimed to be witch doctor and capable of treating infertility."The victim did not have a child

Medics in India discovered a ball of hair weighing almost 4lbs stuck between a 19year-old's stomach and small intestine.The 19-year-old student had a habit of eating her hair and chalk while in class, and the combination had built up inside her body.A team of gastro-surgeons was alerted to the problem after the woman, from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, attended the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in In

Parents sue caregivers caught abusing of 31-year-old autistic son on hidden camerasKathy Coleman had hired Jay Nolan Community Services to provide in-home care for her son, Cameron. Cameron has the mental capacity of a 3-year-old and a form of nonverbal autism, his family said.Kathy Coleman, Cameron’s mom, said she and her husband found it more difficult to care for their son as they’ve grown

A still-unidentified man has lost both legs after falling into a tire shredder while at work at ABC Tire Recycling near downtown Kansas City, US.Missouri factory workers could only watch in horror as their friend was sucked into an industrial tire shredder and lost both his legs.The man is believed to have been cleaning the device at ABC Tire Recycling in Kansas City, when it suddenly powered up a

Pretoria - Tshwane metro police officers in South Africa have been accused of assaulting an elderly woman and locking her up for two days in a police cell, The Sowetan reports.Sindiswa Hejena, 60, of Silverton, told The Sowetan how she was assaulted by a female officer and two male colleagues after a church service last Tuesday."A Nigerian man, a congregant at our church, was given a traffic fine

Two thieves tortured Jika Min, 67, last week on Thursday night after they broke through a window into the five-room house where he lives alone in section J, Botshabelo, Free State, South Africa. They woke him up roughly, demanding money."When I told them I had no money, they said they would cut my eye from its socket with a knife," said Jika."I had R95 under my pillow. One took an iron, plugged i

Coronation Street actor Bill Roache, 80 has claimed sex abuse victims are paying the price for behaviour in "past lives".And he said of the victims: “If you accept that you are pure love, and if you know that you are pure love and therefore live that pure love, these things won’t happen to you.”The remark prompted interviewer Garth Bray to ask: “To some people that sounds perhaps like you

When Ayanda Magoloza, 27, heard her sister scream, she immediately went her room.She found her sister’s boyfriend at the door of the room and he calmly said: “Go and look at the dog I have just killed. And satisfy yourself that she is dead.” He then walked out of the housein Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, South Africa. Ayanda went into the bedroom and found the lifeless body of her sister, Vuyelwa M

Joanne Turton, 33, has spent the last 15 years of her life looking eight months pregnant due to a mystery bowel condition.The disorder has left her with a severely bloated her stomach since she was 18.Doctors have trialled her on a revolutionary machine which instantly relieved her symptoms.Miss Turton, who has a five-year-old daughter, said: 'Ever since I've had this condition, I've had a bloated

TV repairman Bunty Verma from Sendhwa, India reportedly insulted his wife, Hema, so frequently and severely that she decided to leave him.She took their daughter with her.Verma was so distraught that he tried to end his abusive habit by cutting off his tongue.He tried to reach out to his estranged wife with a note explaining that since it was his tongue that was responsible for his cruel words, he

South African police have been closing illegal initiation schools. They acted after concerned parents reported dozens of boys missing. Many boys were allegedly abducted by men known to them while a few went willingly to illegal initiation schools, without their parents’ permission.David “Mashamplan” Lebele, 17, from Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg, had been missing for two weeks. Police foun