adminCollapsed buidling owner arrested
SAVAR/PARIS. — The owner of a Bangladeshi garment factory block that collapsed killing at least 377 people was arrested yesterday as rescuers battled to free a woman trapped for 100 hours under the debris.
Gunmen surround Libya
TRIPOLI. — Gunmen surrounded Libya’s foreign ministry yesterday to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government be banned from senior positions in the new administration.So this is democracy Rejoice?
Fortious Nhambura
After failing to effect the so-called media reforms, self-acclaimed democrat and Zanu-PF critic Rejoice Ngwenya has now shifted focus towards attempting to collapse the public media. He hopes to silence the will of the people and push his master’s neo-liberal ideology.Following up on a Nama award winner
Memory Chirere
Some people take awards in the arts for granted. After the ceremony, they do not care about the winner. They do not make a follow up to observe the effects of an award on the artist. kwaChirere followed up on David Mungoshi whose novel; The Fading Sun won Zimbabwe’s National Arts Merit Award (Nama) in the Outstanding Fiction category inGarcia retains title
NEW YORK. — Unbeaten Danny Garcia retained his World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council light welterweight world titles on Saturday with a 12-round unanimous decision over Zab Judah.Wilkinson upstages Farrell to set up all-French final
LONDON. — England World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson marked his probable Twickenham farewell by kicking Toulon into their first Heineken Cup final after a 24-12 win over Saracens yesterday. Wilkinson, 34 next month, kicked seven penalties and a late drop-goal as Toulon saw off Saracens to book their place at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on May 18Amir Khan beat Julio Diaz
SHEFFIELD. — British boxer Amir Khan weathered a fourth-round knockdown and heavy damage late on to beat Julio Diaz by unanimous decision in Sheffield.Khan continued his rehabilitation from successive defeats against Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia by making a victorious return to Britain after over two years away, but failed
QPR, Reading relegated
LONDON. — Reading and QPR were both relegated from the Barclays Premier League yesterday with neither side able to secure the win they required at the Madejski Stadium to still have an outside chance of surviving.Ex-DW CEO accomplices in court
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court ReporterTwo women who allegedly incited a 12-year-old girl to date 45-year-old convicted former David Whitehead Textiles chief executive Edwin Chimanye recently appeared in court.
Talent Chirenda (20) a student with the University of Zimbabwe and Tatenda Chitima appeared before Mr Musaiona Shotgame charged with procuring, a crime defined as getting a
Robbers use electric shockers to torture couple
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter
Armed robbers killed an Avonlea woman and badly injured her husband by assaulting them with iron bars and torturing them with electric shocks after breaking into their home.
Police have now arrested Clemence Maminimini (33) and Kindness Mubariri (21) of Seke on charges of the murder of Jacqueline Walmsley, the attempted murder of William