EU leaders Tuesday renewed sanctions against Zimbabwe for another year, citing a lack of progress in implementing the country's power-sharing agreement.

A farmer in Russia's Far East has been handed a suspended prison sentence for planting explosives in his field to ward off potato thieves.

Margaret Thatcher banned her envoy to what was then Rhodesia from meeting Robert Mugabe in 1979, refusing to talk "with terrorists until they become prime ministers," files released Wednesday showed.

For a priest in northern England, the commandment that dictates "thou shalt not steal" isn't exactly written in stone.

The EU Commission on Thursday announced 50 million euros (72 million dollars) of humanitarian aid to help four Horn of Africa nations tackle drought induced by global warming.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived in Rome on Saturday for a United Nations summit on food, the ANSA agency reported.

Britain said Thursday that it would provide $100 million in aid to Zimbabwe this year, its largest annual donation to the country, to help the new unity government and to ease a humanitarian crisis.

British premier Gordon Brown Wednesday acknowledged an "unfortunate" legal grey area after Twitter users helped thwart a controversial reporting "gag" granted to an oil company.