A Malaysian family was horrified to discover their maid had spiked their drinking water with soiled diapers and sanitary pads as a magic charm to ensure they were nice to her, reports said on Friday. The 26-year-old Indonesian maid was caught on a spy camera that the suspicious family set up at their home in Kuala Lumpur.
Prosecutors portrayed Michael Jackson as a hard-drinking, porn-collecting paedophile to ”dirty up” the pop star because they could not prove their case that he molested a child, Jackson’s lawyer said in closing arguments. Defence attorney Thomas Mesereau Jnr was to conclude his closing argument on Friday.
Hospital bosses in Britain were meeting on Friday to discuss a controversial move to ban Bibles from patients’ bedsides after they were decreed not only insensitive to other religions but also a health risk. Gideons International, the organisation that distributes Bibles to hospitals, has condemned the mooted move as "outrageous".
A bone found on a British beach has sparked renewed interest in one of the country’s most curious myths — that a monkey washed ashore during the Napoleonic Wars was executed by suspicious locals for being a French spy. The discovery has intrigued locals, given the town’s curious folklore.
A chemical fire that left billowing clouds of smoke hanging over Brakpan North was extinguished at noon on Friday, 14 hours after it started. At least three residents were hospitalised for irritation to their mucous membranes — eyes, noses and mouths — caused by the fumes, said an emergency services spokesperson.
Japan launched a nationwide probe on Friday into thousands of mysterious, sharp-edged pieces of metal in different sizes found jutting out of roadside guardrails across the country. Japanese media have been debating whether the shards were planted by pranksters or if they could all have been formed by car fragments in crashes.
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South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has told business people in Lusaka, Zambia, that his conscience ”is clear”, as he has not committed any crimes. Meanwhile, Shaik’s conviction does not necessarily signal the closure of his Nkobi group of companies.
A few weeks back, I mentioned that I had been playing with a Blackberry and promised to come back to you once I had done a bit more rigorous testing on it. I have. In the meantime, I have also had the chance to try out the Nokia 9500 — a new-generation smart phone that oozes a stylish charm and screams "Open me, open me" when you look at it.
Scattered violence at and near polling stations, including a deadly grenade attack and the shooting of a South African peacekeeper working for the United Nations, threatened to mar key local elections in war-ravaged Burundi on Friday.
You can just imagine the conversation, can’t you? ”Phew … that was a near miss — we nearly had to investigate something sleazy in football … But wait a minute, have you seen what that nasty chap at this team in Ryman League Division Two has done? The naughty so-and-so … We’ll soon sort him out …”