An eight-year-old schoolboy has married a 61-year-old woman because the ghost of his dead ancestor told him to.
Sanele Masilela tied the knot with Helen Shabangu, who is already married and a mother-of-five.
The boy, from Tshwane, South Africa, said he had been told by his dead ancestors to wed and his family, fearing divine retribution, forked out for a wedding.
They...
US companies are keeping more of their profits offshore, choosing overseas tax havens amid talk in Washington about closing corporate tax loopholes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The business newspaper said its analysis of 60 big American companies had found that they had collectively parked a total of $166 billion offshore last year.
That shielded more than...
Cardinals will hold a final set of meetings on Monday before they are locked away to choose a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church through troubled times.
The conclave triggered by the historic resignation of Benedict XVI will start on Tuesday, with the eyes of the world on the 115 men who must nominate one of their own to take his place.
Vatican watchers say there...
Hundreds of people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore ransacked a Christian neighborhood Saturday and torched dozens of homes after hearing reports that a Christian man had committed blasphemy against Islam’s prophet.
Blasphemy is a serious crime in Pakistan that can carry the death penalty but sometimes outraged residents exact their own retribution for perceived...
Up to a dozen Norwegian children may have ingested their kindergarten teacher’s blood after she brought a vial of it into class.
The teacher, who has not been identified, reportedly asked the nurse at a recent doctor’s visit if she could have a vial of her blood to take with her to the school where she taught.
When ‘sharing time’ came, she took...
Fans of Cairo’s Al-Ahly club have stormed Egypt’s Soccer Federation headquarters and and set it on fire in anger after a court acquitted seven of nine police officials on trial for their alleged role in the Port Said stadium riot last year.
The Egyptian interior ministry declared a state of emergency amid claims that jihadists could attack police, according...
A gas explosion has ripped through a crowded Syrian refugee camp in Jordan today.
The fire sent black smoke rising over the Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria.
Authorities said the blaze damaged 35 tents but did not result in any death or injuries.
In December, the U.N. said around one million Syrians have registered as refugees...
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