adminMilton High teacher, pupil fight under probe
Sifundiso Ndlovu Chronicle Reporter THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has instituted a probe into Wednesday’s fight between a Milton High School teacher and a Sixth Form pupil, amid…
Fighting flares up at DRC-Rwanda border
Kinshasa — Fighting flared up again on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo early yesterday, according to Congolese sources, the second day of skirmishes between two…
Woman ‘gang-raped’ at Indian police station
An Indian woman has alleged that she was gang-raped by four officers at a police station in the state of Uttar Pradesh state, barely two weeks after two teenage girls…
Philippine group protests Chinese reclamation
Manila — Members of a political party allied with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III marked the country’s Independence Day on Thursday by protesting China’s moves to reclaim land in the…
Rio airport workers strike ahead of World Cup
Ground staff at Rio de Janeiro’s airports plan to stage a 24-hour partial strike yesterday, the day Brazil hosts the opening match of the football World Cup.
Iraq’s Maliki ‘appealed for US air strikes’
Iraq’s prime minister has asked the United States to carry out drone and air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, but the US has so…
IQ tests for ‘house of horror’ children
Johannesburg — The five children allegedly held captive by their father in a house in Springs, east of Johannesburg, have all undergone IQ tests, Beeld newspaper reported yesterday.
Jealous ex eats man’s heart with knife and fork
Cape Town — A man has been arrested in Gugulethu for allegedly cutting out the heart of his ex-girlfriend’s current lover and eating it with a knife and fork.
Vatican to protect Michelangelo frescoes
Vatican City — Dust, sweat and carbon dioxide brought into the Sistine Chapel by a swelling number of tourists risk damaging priceless Michelangelo frescoes, the Vatican said on Wednesday, hoping…
ANC salutes ‘heroic resolve’ of Rivonia trialists
Johannesburg — The African National Congress saluted the Rivonia trialists on the 50th anniversary of their sentencing yesterday. “This marked the stepping up of the offensive against apartheid and its…