Theophelus Chigova (28) on Thursday told a Bulawayo magistrate that he is subjected to regular beatings by Mildred Jasi (22), a woman he married after dating her over the cellphone.  The couple that used to live together in Mzilikazi, has since separated because of the fights.Jasi and Mr Chigova have a new born baby.Jasi, who appeared in the dock with the baby strapped on her back, told the

A stolen red Audi A4 caused a fireball when it bounced off a wall and smashed into a row of parked cars.The explosion set fire to another five vehicles and four houses were also damaged.The two masked robbers — who died in the inferno — reportedly stole the car in an armed raid on a house in Bolton. Both were burned beyond recognition.Cops gave chase but lost sight of the motor — which is sa

A 20 year old Limpopo, South Africa man raped his 3-year-old niece in Ga-Mothapo, Mankweng on Friday, police said.Constable Moses Molepo said the girl was left with her uncle when her 28-year-old mother went to work at 06:30."The victim revealed the ordeal to the mother and the matter was reported to police for further investigation," Molepo said.Doctors at Mankweng Hospital confirmed that the gi

afne, the nine-year-old girl who gave birth to a baby in Mexico is suspected to be almost certainly far older than her mother claimed and could be 15 or more.In a press conference last night Antonio Munoz Serrano, the health commissioner for the state of Jarisco, said: 'The medical characteristics of this child do not correspond to those of a nine-year-old girl.'She could be much older than that,

A  retired British police officer Sue Diamond surely regrets the day she bought a house over the phone without viewing it. Ridgemont House in Torquay, Devon was bought at auction without being seen or surveyed by the buyer has started to collapse after the latest in a series of devastating landslides.It lies just yards from the edge of a cliff and has now begun to crumble and sag.Miss Diamon

A fertility doctor in Israel, Salem Abu Khaizaran has said Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are smuggling out sperm in order to impregnate their wives. He claims that the wife of a prisoner serving 32 life sentences gave birth to a boy last August and four other prisoners' wives are pregnant after insemination.Abu Khaizaran, who works at a fertility clinic in Nablus, said 22 women had under

BBC's David Attenborough has been criticized for ignoring homosexuality in animals in his documentaries.Dr Brett Mills of the University of East Anglia accused the veteran broadcaster of espousing the idea that all animals are heterosexual despite a wealth of evidence they engage in a variety of sexual activity.Shots of male chimpanzees cuddling, for example, are described to the viewer as no mor

A woman was left 'alarmed and distressed' when she found a used heroin needle in a loaf of bread while she made a  sandwich for her 10 year old son.The mother had taken two slices from the pack of Roberts wholemeal bread, which she had bought from a local Tesco store, when she made the discovery.It emerged the dirty needle had been pushed through the loaf's plastic wrapper by David Rodgers w

A religious couple from Mandara have lost two daughters in two days because they refused to send them to hospital for religious reasons.The girls, Christy and Charmaine Magwanyata, fell  ill last week. They were only taken to hospital when neighbours intervened. Christy died on Wednesday and Charmaine the following day at Parirenyatwa Hospital.The older of the girls is said to have been

John Huttick, an assault victim was crying as he testified about the impact of losing his eye in a fight in the car park of a Philadelphia bar when his prosthetic blue eye popped out. Huttick caught it and cried out as jurors gasped and started to rise."I couldn't believe it just came out," Huttick said later, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.Judge Robert Coleman, who called it an "unfortun

David Coltart, Education, Sport and Culture Minister argues that 18% pass rate is progress.He disapproves the fact that nearly 82% of students failed their November 2012 ‘O’ level exams but argues that this was an improvement on 2009, when only 14% passed.Coltart a senator from the smaller MDC faction was a guest on the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme. He admitted that the results were sobe

Zimbabwean musician Energy Mutodi was briefly detained on Friday by the police for questioning by the police. Superintendent Paul Nyathi of the Press and Public Relations Department of Police General Headquarters confirmed that Mutodi was detained briefly by the Harare Commercial Crimes Unit, assisting with investigations and was later released.Supt Nyathi could not disclose the nature of the inv

Zimbabwe Pension and Insurance Rights Trust (ZimPIRT) and pensioners in Bulawayo have accused insurance companies of ripping them off their hard earned money.Most of the pensioners complained that they were earning between $8 and $40 despite the fact that they had contributed for many years towards their pensions.One of the pensioners, Mr Joshua Weller said insurance companies were using pensione

Kodisang Moema, 34, a nurse from Bloemfontein has pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape. He stands accused of raping a dying, paralysed cancer patient in the National Hospital in Bloemfontein will appear in the city's high court on Friday.Clinical pathologist Adri Krieger testified on Wednesday that the 50-year-old patient had been paralysed in the lower part of her body for about a year when

A man in the USA has decided to bribe his daughter in a bid to stop her from using the social networking site Facebook.Paul Bier from Massachusetts has made his daughter sign a contract that she will not use Facebook for five months.If the 14 year-old girl shows willingness to stop then she will get paid $200 for her efforts but these will come in instalments and she has said that she will use the