Three women arrested for allegedly drowning a baby in a bucket confessed to a magistrate in a case heard in chambers in Mamelodi, Pretoria, on Wednesday, police said. Inspector Paul Ramaloko said the women made ”an admission of guilt” to the magistrate.
A Romanian man who sued God for ”fraud” and ”betrayal of trust” for failing to answer his prayers has had his case dismissed in court, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Mircea Pavel (40), who is serving 20 years in prison for murder, brought charges against ”the defendant God, who lives in the heavens and is represented in Romania by the Orthodox Church”.
Bones and skeletons have disappeared from the Chinese version of the popular online fantasy game World of Warcraft, sparking fierce criticism from the nation’s army of players, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The skeletons, regular characters, grow flesh in the new version.
Three metro police officers and their families have gone into hiding for fear of their lives, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Wednesday. They are ”living in terror”, their counsel, Marne Strydom, told the court. The three men have asked the court to grant a restraining order against metro police chief Robert McBride.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner travels to Serbia this week amid signs that Europe is ready to recognise Kosovo’s independence even without a supporting United Nations resolution. Serbia rejects independence for Kosovo, seen by many Serbs as the cradle of their nation and religion.
The Railway Safety Regulator on Wednesday appealed to motorists to be extra vigilant in the vicinity of railway stations and trains. This comes after two accidents occurred on Wednesday morning in Pretoria West and Randfontein. In one, a truck crashed head-on with a train, injuring at least 20 commuters and the train driver.
The official story goes like this: on the last night of Jim Morrison’s life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart failure in his bathtub at age 27. But rumours and mystery have always swirled around the death of the Doors frontman, and now a former Paris nightclub manager is telling another story.
Trade unions and employers in the metal and engineering industry reached an agreement on Wednesday, ending a two-day strike, union Solidarity said. However, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa dismissed claims that it had reached an agreement.
Floods caused by abnormally heavy rains have affected nearly 7Â 000 people in southern Ethiopia, disaster officials said on Wednesday. "Almost 7Â 000 people are already affected by the floods caused by heavy rains in the south of the country for more than a week, especially in the Omo region," said Sisay Tadesse, spokesperson for the Ethiopian Agency for Disaster Prevention.
The state on Wednesday urged the Wynberg Regional Court to refuse bail for slain entertainer Taliep Petersen’s widow, Najwa, as well as for one of the three co-accused in the murder, Abdoer Emjedi. Najwa’s own family handed to the court a petition in which the community demanded she remain in custody.