Zimbabwe jail over bread prices
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Two of Zimbabwe's senior bakers start a four-month jail term after being convicted of breaking price controls.
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DURANT, Okla. - Inmate meals at the Bryan County Jail aren't what they used to be after authorities discovered an inmate chef with a gourmet palate spent more than twice as much on groceries as was budgeted.
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Roy Bennett, one of three white lawmakers in Zimbabwe&#39;s Parliament, has been taken to prison to serve a year with hard labor. He was sentenced by a Parliament dominated by the ruling Zanu PF party.
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A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling party is arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle diamonds abroad.
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President Robert G. Mugabe turned 83 as bakeries shut down, saying government price controls were requiring them to sell loaves at a loss.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Sept. 10 -- A Zimbabwean court jailed a former British special services officer for seven years Friday in a case prosecutors linked to a foiled coup attempt in the oil-rich country of Equatorial Guinea.
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Runaway inflation and the Zimbabwe currency's largest decline in memory will increase pressure on President Robert Mugabe to allow free and fair elections, the main opposition leader said Thursday.
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Zimbabwe business leaders held out an olive branch to government Wednesday over its controversial price controls, pledging to make goods more affordable and accepting there would be no let-up of a crackdown which has seen hundreds of retailers arrested.
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Zimbabwe's national security minister has told the country's last remaining white farmers that they will be jailed if they refuse to abide by a deadline that passed over the weekend for them to leave their farms, according to a newspaper report on Monday.
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Shops run out of bread in Harare and Zimbabwe's main internet satellite connection shuts down over unpaid bills.
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CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe -- It's not only the prices of bread and eggs that are out of control in Zimbabwe, land of 4,000 percent inflation. For the man inclined to cheat on his wife, these are trying times. Keeping a mistress, visiting a prostitute or even taking a girlfriend out for beers is simply...
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A Zimbabwe opposition MP who assaulted a minister in parliament has been arrested trying to leave the country. A parliamentary committee recommended on Wednesday that Roy Bennett be jailed for a year after
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Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate, soars to 66,212.3% for December, official figures say.
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President Robert Mugabe's government has ordered prices of basic goods and services be slashed by half to protect Zimbabweans battling with the world's highest inflation rate, official media reported on Tuesday.
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Zimbabwe has said its inflation spiral had risen to 1,098.8 percent last month, a 28.6 percentage point hike, as experts cast doubts on state efforts to slash it to the three-digit level.
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MACHIAS, Maine - A 54-year-old homeless man who routinely complained of fake chest pains to avoid paying the tab for restaurant meals may have gotten his just desserts.  A judge sentenced Elias I. Elias on Friday to 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to theft of services.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s President Robert Mugabe has accused Britain of harboring Zimbabwean businessman who have fled prosecution for economic crimes at home.