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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Worms eat Chinese fisherman’s buried life-savings

CHINESE fisherman Wu Chen didn’t trust the banks with his life-savings so he decided to bury it.

Unfortunately for the 67-year-old pensioner, he never could have guessed his 35,000 RMB (AUD$7536) nest egg would be eaten by worms.

SO-CALLED white student unions are springing up at universities across Australia, charged with supporting and defending the interests of white students who they say are becoming marginalised from on-campus life and political debate.

A MAN managed to pass through a security checkpoint and check in for a flight using another person’s boarding pass inadvertently left behind at an automated ticketing kiosk, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has confirmed.

At least seven female students have died after a fire at a boarding school hostel near the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday night, officials say.

Most of the deaths resulted from a stampede as hundreds of students rushed to escape the blaze through two exits, the Kano state officials said.

AN 11-year-old girl single-handedly delivered her baby sister when her mum suddenly went into labour – then calmly went off to school.

Caitlin Burke sprang into action when mum Tara Knightley’s waters suddenly broke on Tuesday morning.

A 20-year-old woman in South Africa has pleaded guilty to trying sell her child for 5,000 rand ($380; £250) on advertising website Gumtree.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says that the mother faced charges including human trafficking and money laundering.

One woman has died and at least 31 others have been hospitalised after a security exercise at a university in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

Staff member Esther Kidemba died from severe head injuries, Strathmore University confirmed in a statement

The Moroccan writer and sociologist Fatima Mernissi, known for her pioneering work in the field of Islamic feminism, has died.

Her work also touched on broader issues of human rights and democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali looks at the resurgence of a secessionist movement that supports the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra in Nigeria.