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Bizarre it may appear, but a man in the US state of California has reportedly been arrested for biting a python, leaving the snake seriously hurt. David Senk (54) was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully maiming a pet reptile in the city of Sacramento late on Sunday. The python is recovering after beingIt’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a sedan?
Flying cars aren’t just science fiction anymore.Woburn, Massachusetts-based Terrafugia Inc. said on Monday that its prototype flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the
Africa’s richest man donates to Congo blast victims
LAGOS — Africa’s richest man, Nigerian Aliko Dangote, has donated US$500 000 to victims of last month’s munitions blasts in Congo which killed at least 282 people, his group said yesterday.Dangote made the donation at the weekend in the Congolese capital Brazzaville with a pledge to
China imports present huge opportunity for world
BEIJING — Measures to promote balanced trade currently being deliberated by Chinese authorities may create significant opportunities for other countries if implemented. The State Council, or China’s cabinet, said in a statement released last Friday after an executive meeting that China is consideringRussia calls US funding of democracy a ‘problem’
MOSCOW — Russia said yesterday that continued US funding of groups supporting the spread of democracy in the country was turning into a problem ahead of Vladimir Putin’s return for a third Kremlin term. Putin has repeatedly accused Washington of using the programme to bankroll the mass street
‘Malema not bigger than ANC’
JOHANNESBURG — ANC Youth League president Julius Malema should be summarily expelled from the ANC, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA) said yesterday. “Julius Malema thinks he is bigger than the ANC,” MKMVA national chairman Kebby Maphatsoe told reporters in
Editorial Comment: Time GPA parties abandoned comfort zones, went for elections
WE hail the apparent consensus that is emerging between the two main parties in Government over the holding of harmonised elections this year. Last week, President Mugabe revealed that the country will go for a referendum on the envisaged new constitution in May, failing which we go for electionsStyle and visual art
Knowledge MushohweArtistic style can be defined as characteristics or a group of traits that can be identified to be constant, recurring or coherent. It is a combination of medium, choice of subject and, most
President Mugabe: The guiding light
Phinias M MakombeAs I was on cloud nine during this year’s 21st February Movement, it hit me that I should share a plethora of reasons to my avalanche of joy to those who do not know why it brings such joy to
Obama’s nuclear disarmament hoax
Peter Symonds
LAST week’s gathering of world leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit in South Korea was the occasion for a great deal of cynical posturing about nuclear disarmament and world peace. US