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Bobbi Kristina Brown has got engaged to her "adopted" brother Nick Gordon The aspiring actress - who is the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston - surprises her dismayed family with the news in a preview from her upcoming reality show Houstons: On Our Own , nervously telling them: "We're engaged!" Nick was informally adopted by Whitney when he was 12 and the pair were raised as brother and sister. They were "always close" growing up but their relationship changed as they got older and they sought comfort in each other after Whitney's death in February and started living like a couple in Atlanta. The reality series will follow how the pair and other family members - Whitney's brother Gary, sister-in-law (and the singer's former manager) Patricia Houston and Bobbi's grandmother Cissy Houston - have coped with life since the tragic passing of the I Will Always Love You singer. Cissy recently announced her concern f...

Oct 12 2012 12:07 Malcom Sharara, Fin24’s correspondent in Zimbabwe ZIMBABWEAN workers in most spheres of the economy might be earning far less than their South African counterparts, but going on strike is a luxury they cannot afford. While South African miners demanded and some were awarded wages above R11 000, their Zimbabwean counterparts are earning less than R2 000. I am sure the wages of South African truckers are currently way above those of their Zimbabwean counterparts. Mind you, South African miners are earning wages above the average $250 that Zimbabwean civil servants are earning. Surprisingly, Zimbabweans rarely go on strike, and in the cases where they have done so employers simply ignore them until they come back to work. Civil servants demonstrated in the streets of Harare in July and handed over a petition at parliament in which they called on government to urgently address their grievances for a salary increase. However, up to now nothing has materialised. They last ...

Residents in Zaka have warned that there is worsening violence in Masvingo province, with ZANU PF being blamed for a growing number of attacks and incidents of intimidation. Most recently, the ward chairman of the MDC-T in Zaka Central was hospitalised along with his wife after their home was petrol bombed by suspected ZANU PF members last week. Nelson Bvudzijena and his wife were rushed to St. Anthony’s Musiso hospital with reportedly serious injuries. A resident in Zaka told SW Radio Africa this week that the attack on the Bvudzijena home followed a confrontation between the ward chairman and a gang of known ZANU PF thugs. The argument is believed to have been about Bvudzijena’s loyalties to the MDC, which prompted the ZANU PF members to threaten him. The thugs are said to have warned Bvudzijena that they “would come for him at night.” Days later, Bvudzijena’s home was burned down while was sleeping. The resident explained that not one of the perpetrators of the arson attack was arr...

By Tichaona Sibanda 08 October 2012 Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has threatened to pull out of the inclusive government if his party supporters continue to be victims of political violence. Speaking in Zaka, Masvingo province this weekend, the Premier said he would soon convene an emergency council meeting to decide whether or not to stay in the inclusive government. The district of Zaka witnessed some of the worst cases of political violence during the 2008 elections. A number of MDC-T supporters were petrol bombed and killed during the orgy of violence, largely perpetrated by soldiers and ZANU PF militia. Last week the party’s ward chairman in Zaka, Nelson Bvudzijena, was injured when his house was petrol bombed. He was taken to the St Anthony’s Musiso hospital were the MDC leader paid him visit. Tsvangirai also accused ZANU PF leader Robert Mugabe of being a hypocrite, who denounced violence by day and promoted it by night. He told his supporters that his message to Mugabe is t...

This handout illustration obtained by Reuters October 11, 2012, shows the interior of the planet 55 Cancri … LONDON (Reuters) - Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one's bigger than planet Earth. Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond. The rocky planet, called '55 Cancri e', orbits a sun-like star in the constellation of Cancer and is moving so fast that a year there lasts a mere 18 hours. Discovered by a U.S.-Franco research team, its radius is twice that of Earth's with a mass eight times greater. That would give it the same density as Earth, although previously observed diamond planets are reckoned to be a lot more dense. It is also incredibly hot, with temperatures on its surface reaching 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit (1,648 Celsius). "The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite," said Nik...