Teen's YouTube bank heist brag

US: A teenager was arrested after she made a YouTube video where she bragged robbing a bank.

The 19-year-old Hannah Sabata can be clearly seen in the video holding up currency notes. She named the video clip 'Chick Bank Robber', reports the York News-Times.

She also holds up signs on a plain sheet of paper in the video describing how she's having 'the best day of her life'. She has also captioned her video explaining how she stole more than $6,000 during the bank robbery.

The teenagers had grand plans of paying off student loans and going on a shopping spree.

However, her dreams did not materialise and now the same video will be used as evidence against her in the court.

Gun turns up in frozen food package

MEXICO: New Mexico authorities say they're puzzled by what turned up in a package of meat at a Roswell grocery store.

A worker at Albertsons opened a case of frozen ribs Wednesday and found a handgun and ammunition packed with the meat.

Roswell police Sgt. Jim Preston tells Albuquerque television station KRQE  that it would be speculation to say how it got there.

Authorities have some clues.

A police report shows that the meat came from the Swift Packing Plant in Greeley, Colo., and is marked with the date June 8, 2011.

Greeley police say they're reviewing cases to see if the gun was used in any crimes.

Authorities say the semi-automatic Rock Island Armory .38 Super had not been reported stolen. A firearms trace could take weeks. (AP) 

Cash-strapped country urged to hike witch-doctor tax

SWAZILAND: A Swazi Member of Parliament has urged the government to hike taxes on traditional healers and soothsayers to help solve a funding crisis in Africa's last absolute monarchy.

The mediums, known as sangomas in the landlocked southern African nation, pay an annual 10 emalangeni ($1.15) license fee, but MP Majahodvwa Khumalo said they had jacked up their fees fourfold in the last few years and should pay more.

"A majority of our people consult traditional healers but the money they pay to government falls far too short of the money they make," he told parliament.

Swaziland's budget deficit ballooned to 15 percent of its annual economic output in 2010 but the government managed to keep itself afloat by running through central bank reserves and delaying payment of wages to civil servants.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) declined to launch a bailout because of reluctance by King Mswati III, who has at least a dozen wives and a personal fortune estimated at $200 million, to cut royal or military spending.

The IMF has continued to press for reductions to what is officially Africa's most bloated bureaucracy. In an in-depth assessment of the economy published in February, it rated the scope for raising more taxes as "small". (REUTERS)

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