Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe arrived home from Asia this morning as his party denied reports he had suffered a health emergency.

A court in Zimbabwe yesterday fined six activists $500 (£315) each and ordered them to do community service for conspiring to commit public violence during a meeting in which they watched video footage of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Six activists fear long jail sentences for alleged attempt to inspire uprising. Alex Duval Smith reports in Harare

Who said Robert Mugabe doesn't have friends? The President of Zimbabwe might have few allies on the global stage but thousands of supporters turned out for the finale of the week-long party celebrating the leader's 88th birthday.

Up to 200 apparently pro-Mugabe militants besieged Zimbabwe's parliament building in central Harare yesterday, assaulting journalists and lawmakers who were attending a parliamentary human rights panel.

Barcelona men gripped their women’s necks as they strolled on the Ramblas in an act of erotic possessiveness

Lawyers for 46 people facing treason charges for allegedly plotting an Egyptian-style uprising said yesterday that some of the group's members were tortured by police.

The crew were told to prepare for landing. My heart was pounding. How would I be received in the country I fled in a blaze of death threats nine years ago?

The intensifying battle to succeed Robert Mugabe yesterday forced the 86-year-old President of Zimbabwe to publicly deny reports that he is seriously ill. Speculation that the aged leader's health had deteriorated has helped to push a behind-the-scenes power struggle between rival factions in his ruling party into the open.

Reports of a crash involving a London-departing Boeing jet led to worried calls to airlines today only for the incident to be later declared a practice drill.

Masawara plans to raise $25m (£16m) floating on AIM to invest in "the recovery of Zimbabwe's economy", with "significant potential returns in the next five years" from investment in natural resources, telecoms, commercial real estate and state privatisations.

When Alan Butcher was appointed coach of Zimbabwe in February his task appeared a thankless one. Four months on and he seems to be doing something right after his charges returned a second successive one-day international win over India. His brief is to prepare the country for a return to Test cricket – provisionally scheduled for later this year – and while one-day games can swing in a moment, the convincing manner of both Zimbabwe's wins can only raise hopes.

Zimbabweans have given a new twist to the notion of taking justice into your own hands as victims of crime have been forced to drive the accused to court in their own vehicles.

"Harare North" is London (just as "Harare South" is Johannesburg), which is where our anonymous first-person protagonist fetches up, with all his belongings in one suitcase, sharing a squat in Brixton with other assorted Zimbabwean refugees. His mission: to keep his head down and not be noticed, to say nothing about his past, and to return to Zimbabwe to perform a ceremony to allow his dead mother's spirit to return to her place of birth. But first, he needs to get some money.