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ACCRA — Thousands of mourners including African leaders, dignitaries and ordinary Ghanaians attended the state funeral yesterday of president John Atta Mills, who died last month ahead of a re-election bid.Harassed cow climbs to 5th floor escaping marauding bull
A cow in Siberia’s Irkutsk Region defied nature by climbing to the fifth floor of an apartment building, seeking to escape the love advances of a young bull, rescuers said on Wednesday. The cow fled theObama opens lead over Romney: poll
WASHINGTON — New polls this week showed US President Barack Obama has gained a considerable lead over presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney, as the president’s re-election camp bombarded the GOP standard bearer with negative ads in recent months.US drone to map ancient Peru ruins
WASHINGTON — Archeologists in Peru plan to use a US-made drone to survey ancient Andean ruins, in the latest civilian application of the unmanned aerial vehicles used to hunt militants in the world’s war zones.
MDC: Futility of reinventing heroism
Talk to those involved in the mired draft constitution and they will tell you that the endless parleys between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations over the constitution amounted to a relationship between rulers and the governed. The MDC formations took the obsequious and obeisant posture of oppositional subjects petitioning for greater concessions from those in power, Zanu-PF.
They sought what really amounts to standard provisions in the bill of rights, but with the supplicatory tone of people well outside the circuit of governing, never as sharers, never as co-governors. And it
As little boys growing up in Chakari, we were all Falcon Gold by birth and either Dynamos or CAPS United by choice
Poor Sean Connor, a typical story told by a fool, when you hear it, you get to feel the intensity of the sound and fury but, when you take time to think about it, you realise that everything meant nothing.Sean Connor was finally axed at CAPS United, just hours after losing at Hwange, and if they sort out all his issues quickly, he could be home in time to watch the closing ceremony of the Olympics live in London tomorrow.
Mupandawana to host 2012 Heroes Gala
Walter Mswazie
Masvingo Correspondent
THIS year’s Heroes gala will be held at Gutu’s Mupandawana Growth Point, Masvingo Province, on 17 August and the event is likely to invigorate the entertainment starved but busy service centre.
‘Group causes stir at Matopo’
Prosper Ndlovu
A GROUP of about 568 people, some of them war veterans, yesterday visited the Matopos National Park and performed rituals.
‘Census to go ahead as planned’
Makhosi Sibanda
Chronicle Correspondent
THE Government yesterday said it had suspended the training of enumerators for the 2012 population census until further notice but the census itself will proceed as planned from 17-28 August.
Tobacco sales rake in $189,6m
Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE has earned $189,6 million from the export of 43,5 million kilogrammes of flue-cured tobacco this year.