Cara returns

AUCKLAND — Former doubles No. 1 Cara Black of Zimbabwe will return to the tour after a year-and-a-half off following the birth of her first child at the ASB Tennis Classic, which begins on December 31.

Mutuma for Celtic

Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
LANKY Dynamos forward Roderick Mutuma received a Christmas present with a difference this week when South African Premiership side Bloemfontein Celtic confirmed their interest in his services and

Cabinet team fails to clear sticky issues

Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter
THE Cabinet committee on the new Constitution has failed to resolve the deadlock over 30 contentious issues from the Second All Stakeholders’ Conference. The team was scheduled to meet

Council medical aid faces collapse

Wenceslaus Murape Senior Reporter
HARARE City Council’s medical aid society faces collapse after council failed to remit over US$4 million in deductions from workers’ salaries for nearly a year. This has left thousands of council

31 more perish on roads as haulage truck claims 18

Herald Reporters
AT least 31 more people were killed in road traffic accidents in various parts of the country between Sunday evening and yesterday afternoon, with 18 of them perishing in one accident in Manicaland.

Pensioner loses £6 000 on way home from casino

A pensioner who carried around her £6 000 in life savings because she was afraid of being burgled was mugged on the way home from a casino. The 86-year-old woman’s bag, containing about £7 000, was

Man steals corpse’s hand

A drunken man broke into a morgue and stole the hand from a corpse — so he could scare his neighbour, it was reported. Kewsley de Oliveira (31), who had spent the night drinking vodka at a bar in

True love knows no height

The world’s tallest teenage girl walks hand-in-hand with her boyfriend, the picture of young love despite a staggering 1ft 4in height difference. Elisany da Cruz Silva (17) measures an unbelievable 6ft 8in tall

Afghan policewoman shoots foreign adviser

KABUL — A female Afghan police officer shot dead a NATO civilian adviser inside Kabul police headquarters yesterday, officials said, in the first “insider” attack by a woman. It was the latest in a

US gun advocates seek Piers Morgan deportation

WASHINGTON — US gun rights advocates have signed a White House petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported for allegedly attacking the Second Amendment rights of ordinary

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