Zimbabwe

Up to 600 workers at the Chinese diamond mining company Anjin Investments have gone on strike to demand higher wages and improved working conditions.

With the US hit by the global economic crisis and the Eurozone still fighting to save the common currency, Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor has decided to turn to the East and considers using the Chinese Yuan as the country's main currency.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he has separated his wife of 12 days, citing a "greater and thicker plot" by state agents and the media which deeply damaged their relationship.

The restaurant chain Nando's has drawn the ire of a militant group over its latest advert.

Zimbabwe's President Rober Mugabe is stepping-up his anti-western rhetoric ahead of the elections, calling the Prime Minister "Satanic" for threatening to withhold aid from countries that do not respect gay rights.

A student whose sexual assault complaint is believed to have prompted the suicide of former cricketer Peter Roebuck told yesterday how he was "groomed online."

A man who confessed to murdering Ugandan gay activist David Kato has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Zimbabwean dictator, President Robert Mugabe has moved from politics to show business after reinventing himself as a popstar.

ANC Youth Leader Julius Malema has been found guilty of bringing South Africa's ruling party into disrepute.

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Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, was crowned the 61st Miss World in a glittering ceremony at the Earls Court Two in London on Sunday night. Miss Philippines, Gwendoline Ruais, was named the runner-up, while Miss Puerto Rico, Amanda Perez, came third in the contest.

A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who transformed into a donkey during the night and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal.

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a long-time opponent of Mugabe's Zanu-PF has changed his stance on gay rights, saying he now wants them enshrined in the new soon-to be constitution.

Justice may still come to bear for the former 'King of Kings' .

Human skulls taken from Namibia by Germany during the colonial period have finally been returned after more than 100 years, but now historians and activists demand that Germany pay reparations for the slaughter of more than 60,000 people.

Researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that women who are in command at home are likely to have less sex.

With revelations that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer that may kill him within two years, the race for succession in Zimbabwe is set to get even more heated.

Zimbabwean police have launched an investigation to uncover the cause of the fire that killed one of Zimbabwe's most powerful men, retired General Solomon Mujuru on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe does not miss an occasion to hit back at his 'arch enemy' as he told Britain "to put out your own fires" and warned the country should focus on its own internal problems instead of interfering in his southern African nation.

A torture camp allegedly run by Zimbabwe's security forces has been discovered by BBC Panorama, the news agency said.

Just like the Gaddafi regime, The Mugabe government has long feared that Britain and its Western allies would ally to work out a plan that would force him out of power. Both men were liberation fighters and saw themselves, at the beginning of their mandate, as the true voice of the people.

British lawyer Peter Benson began the movement that led to the establishment of Amnesty International in May 1961 by issuing an "appeal for amnesty" on behalf of two Portuguese students who had been imprisoned for raising their glasses in a "toast to freedom".

As Zimbabwe's next elections, originally planned for 2011, are now called into question, the media in the West as well as in Africa announce that "divisions are re-surfacing in Zimbabwe's constitutional-revision process as the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe has accused the Movement for Democratic Change of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of dragging out the process to postpone elections."

It's not often that an article in the Guardian interests me, but yesterday between the regular complaints about the cuts and the stories of the plight of downtrodden workers in far away places, there was a real gem of a piece about the Chinese dissident and now Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is hoping to use the G8/G20 summit to improve relations with Russia, according to his spokesman.