Just more than 300 Metro police officers gathered at the Metro police offices in Johannesburg on Thursday to continue protesting against working overtime, Metro police spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said. He said the protests have not negatively affected operations.
A 37-year-old ”mentally ill” man has been arrested for chopping his three-year-old daughter to pieces using an axe, Limpopo police said on Thursday. Police spokesperson Inspector Ntobeng Phala said neighbours called the police when they witnessed the man, who is married to a mentally ill woman, chopping up the child.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended that four countries go on a Marburg alert around Angola, the epicentre of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like virus that has now claimed 174 lives, a top health official said on Thursday. The death toll from the virus has more than doubled in the past three weeks.
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund on Thursday denied being the beneficiary of any money-making art schemes, having never accepted participating in the so-called Madiba Art Project. This follows reports that Mandela’s former lawyer, Ismail Ayob, allegedly used Mandela’s name to sell works of art without his consent.
Doctors have removed a leech from the nose of a 55-year-old Hong Kong woman after she swam and washed her face in a stream, a medical journal reported. The woman went to her doctor complaining of nose bleeds and an occasional sensation that something was blocking her left nostril.
The people of Florida will soon be able to shoot an attacker in the street and face only a minimal risk of prosecution under a new law approved by the state legislature. In a show of strength by the United States’s gun lobby, the law passed the state legislature by 94 votes to 20 this week.
Sixteen-year-old Marcelo Júlio Gomes do Nascimento was chatting on the porch of a shabby bar in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Queimados, when an unmarked car swung into view, and its masked occupants unleashed a hail of bullets so accurate that barely a mark was left on the crumbling walls of the bar.
Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, confirming fears that violence in the territories may once again spill across the borders. The incident suggests that militants recently involved in confrontations with the Palestinian police are now prepared to vent their frustration on Israeli targets.
When Laura Zubulake’s male colleagues on Wall Street wanted to strike deals with clients, they headed to the golf course, the baseball stadium and, inevitably, the strip club. Amid the machismo, Zubulake never got a look in. Now her former employer is being forced to pay out -million (about R178-million) in damages.
Kings and queens, rabbis and ayatollahs, presidents, holy patriarchs and prime ministers will on Friday gather in pomp to bid farewell to a pauper — a man whose will, published on Thursday, shows he left ”no property of which it is necessary to dispose”. On Thursday, Pope John Paul II’s corpse was still lying in state.