A boy aged two was shot in the head by his four-year-old brother after a squabble over a toy and a churchgoer opened fire on fellow worshippers, killing seven of them, in a weekend of gun violence across the United States. Police said the two boys had been squabbling in their Houston home when the younger child threw a toy at his brother.
A man was arrested on bestiality charges after he was found raping his neighbour’s goat at a village in Limpopo on Sunday morning. Police spokesperson Inspector Ntobeng Phala said the owner of the goat heard the animal crying from the kraal at Zist Village, Ga-Maleboho, about 200km northwest of Polokwane.
A working dog so faithful that he spent almost a week with his dead owner’s body will be put down and buried with his master, animal welfare group RSPCA said on Monday. ”Euthanasing him is the best thing to do,” said RSPCA Queensland spokesperson Michael Beatty.
It will take a hundred years to transfer 30% of agricultural land to black farmers at the current rate, South African Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande said on Monday. He said joint action was needed to accelerate the land reform process if the 30% target was to be reached within the next ten years.
A Turkish man managed to get the pension of his mother for two years after her death, posing as an elderly woman to the local bank and neighbours, the mass-circulation <i>Sabah</i> newspaper reported on Saturday. He was caught only after he forgot to change his voice in response to a question by a bank clerk.
For North Carolina-based football fan Chris Barrett, the trip to the United Kingdom to watch his favourite team in action was a long-cherished dream, after years of saving money. If only the match had not been cancelled. Barrett, a 36-year-old United States schoolteacher, was putting a brave face on the disappointment on Saturday.
A student picked up one of many unexploded munitions littering Somalia on Sunday, setting off a blast that killed four boys and injured six others, witnesses said. The dead were aged between 10 and 16. The injured lost limbs or suffered abdominal wounds in the explosion at Sabiid, a village in the central Somali region of Mudug.
It was a case of third time unlucky for a hapless but determined Bosnian thief who was arrested three times on the same day for three different crimes, a report said. The 44-year-old was first caught breaking into a car on Saturday and taken to a police station in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza.
A prison warder on escort duty was shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town’s Groote Schuur hospital on Monday morning, police said. Police spokesperson Captain Billy Jones said the incident took place at the hospital’s outpatients reception area shortly after 10am, when four warders brought a prisoner in for medical treatment.
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool promised protesting taxi drivers on Monday to intervene personally if their negotiations with the provincial transport ministry fail. On Monday, taxi drivers made good on threats a few months ago to blockade tourist attractions, with a cavalcade of metered sedans disrupting traffic in central Cape Town.