Well, it had to happen sometime I guess. Statistics, if nothing else said so. I’d had one before, clambering through my window, but that was several years ago. More recently there had been an intruder in the garden. But this was the real thing, There I was, confronting an armed burglar in my bedroom at four o’clock in the morning.
Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is secretly negotiating immunity from prosecution for crimes committed during his 23-year rule.
MDC marches to a different beat
The Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church.
Depsite land restitution and ecotourism initiatives, most of the Khomani-San still live in almost abject poverty and only a handful still speak their traditional language. But Petrus Vaalbooi is optimistic.
Activist Ruth Smith assists women who are abused. But she will have to wait till daybreak if she needs police assistance when a victim of gender violence calls on her for help after 4pm.
The Zimbabwean opposition said on Friday it would not join a government of national unity with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party, widening the rift on possible negotiations between the parties to end Zimbabwe’s political and economic chaos.
The sentencing of the final former Symbionese Liberation Army member to plead guilty in a 1975 deadly bank robbery was postponed on Friday.
When captains Gudmundur Haraldsson, Gunnar Johansson and Konrad Eggertsson slipped their three boats quietly out of port yesterday morning to hunt minke whales for the first time in 14 years, the forecast was for calm seas and clear skies.
The US and Canada blamed each other yesterday for the worst power cut in North American history, as 50-million people plunged into darkness across the affected area struggled to recover from the multi-billion-dollar impact of the blackout.