adminDrug ‘mule’ gets 3-year jail term on 90th birthday
DETROIT — A 90-year-old Indiana man who admitted serving as a cocaine courier for a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in federal prison.
Suitor seeks new lover after killing two others
ISTANBUL — A man who appeared on a Turkish television dating show in search of a new partner shocked the audience by revealing he had murdered his former wife and…
‘I thought he was my hubby’
Patrick Chitumba Senior Reporter RESIDENTS of Chibila Compound in Binga are still reeling in shock after a 21-year-old daring man Alfa Mutale took advantage of the absence of his neighbour…
Traders sue Zimra
Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau THE High Court is expected rule on a test case in which traders are challenging a Statutory Instrument that gave the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority power to…
China plans to open massive waste incinerator
Chinese experts have defended the construction of a huge waste incinerator in the scenic eastern city of Hangzhou, state media said yesterday, despite weeks of protests by residents who fear…
MURDER, RAPE AT CEMETERY
Plaxcedes Hove Chronicle Reporter BULAWAYO police have launched a major investigation after a man was stabbed to death in a savage attack near a cemetery which left his friend hospitalised.
ANC’s 62pc majority secure
CAPE TOWN. — The ANC was leading the election with more than 11 million votes as counting neared the end yesterday, giving President Jacob Zuma a second term with a…
CAA condemn abductions in Nigeria
By Tendai H Manzvanzvike THE Council of African Apostles (CAA), an assembly of eminent Christian church leaders from across sub-Saharan Africa, that is chaired by Zimbabwe’s prominent church leader, Bishop…
Mass protest in northern Nigeria over missing girls
MAIDUGURI/JOHANNESBURG. — Hundreds of people joined a protest in the traditional stronghold of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria yesterday, accusing the government of indifference to the kidnapping of more than…
Pistorius sells home
JOHANNESBURG. — Oscar Pistorius has sold the upmarket Pretoria home where he shot dead his girlfriend, as legal fees mounted from his lengthy murder trial that continued yesterday.