Ice cream, sorbet recall

RETAILER Woolworths yesterday recalled 12 ice-cream and sorbet products that were not labelled with the peanut allergen warnings.

Customers who had bought any of the products were advised to check whether their products lacked the required labels. If so, they could return the products for a full refund.

For more information, phone 0860 022 002. – Mercury Correspondent

Foul traditional brew

MAPUTO: More than two dozen people, including children were treated on Monday and yesterday at a hospital in Pembe for drinking contaminated maheu, made of maize flour and stale porridge.

The victims suffered diarrhoea and vomiting. Some of them have been discharged while the others were still in intensive care in the local hospital. – Xinhua

Rocket relaunch

JERUSALEM: Space Exploration Technologies expects to return an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket to flight in December, a spokesman in Jerusalem said yesterday.

Less than three minutes after lift-off from Florida on June 28, a rocket taking cargo to the International Space Station exploded. – Reuters

It’s a dog’s life…

MIAMI: A man accused of driving drunk after leading police on a high-speed chase explained to an officer that it was his dog, and not him, who had been driving the vehicle.

Reliford Cooper III, 26, blamed the pooch after his car had crashed into a ditch following the chase in Palmetto, Florida, and he had tried to flee from police. – ANA

Local soapie star dies

HIS humourous character kept viewers glued to their TV screens for years every night.

Yesterday, viewers of the SABC2 soapie, Muvhango, woke to the news that actor Sammy Moeti, who played a traditional healer and sangoma, had died after a long illness. – Mercury