THE CNN ran a story on a pro-Iranian government website that is publishing pictures of protestors as part of a government crackdown on protestors calling for a rerun of the presidential election, which saw Ahmadinejad returning to power amid allegations of rigging. The website encourages pro-government militias like the Basij to hunt down protestors, with [...]

THE increasingly popular internet micro-blogging network Twitter has been driven over capacity by millions of posts on the death of pop star Michael Jackson, who died after what is suspected to have been a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home.
A snapshot of Twitter’s Trending analytics at 7pm GMT showed that out of 10 subjects [...]

Among other deals, Russia and Namibia today made bilateral committments in the diamond and uranium mining industries. Pic Tawanda Kanhema

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev inspects the Guard of Honour at the State House in Windhoek, Namibia. Pic Tawanda Kanhema

We’ll come momentarily to Obama’s discovery that it’s not all fun being president, but first a bulletin on regime-change for co-editor Cockburn. Though the U.S. Constitution seemingly blocks my path at this time, I have taken the first necessary step in my own quest for the White House by becoming a citizen of [...]

EXPERTS working at Zimbabwe’s largest water treatment plant, blamed for the 2008 cholera outbreak that infected nearly 100,000 people and killed over 5,000 Zimbabweans, say the plant needs an urgent overhaul, just as Harare officials announced that they had procured chemicals worth $450,000.
ZiaNetwork this week established that the Morton Jeffray plant, which uses 4.0 [...]