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Masvingo, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday told cheering party loyalists he was not ready to step down. There had been frenzied speculation that Mugabe, who turns 80 next year, would use the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) conference this weekend in the southern city of Masvingo to announce he was resigning or selecting a successor. But instead he told around 3 000 party loyalists in his closing address that his country had given him a mandate to continue ruling. "I must make good that mandate," he said to deafening applause. "If I feel I...

According to my COM101 class notes, to win a libel suit, one must generally prove six things of the defendant: 1. Identity of the person damaged 2. Publication of the material 3. That the published material was actually defaming 4. Falseity of the defaming material 5. Fault: if the plantiff is a public figure, he/she must prove actual malice: either a) knowingly lying, OR b) reckless disregard for the truth; if the plantiff does not hold any sort of public or celebrity status, he/she must merely prove negligence 6. That the material in some way caused injury or harm to...

LONDON (Reuters) - A controversial plan to grant governments broad controls over the Internet has stolen the spotlight of a United Nations conference on IT next week, where China and Cuba will be among its strongest supporters. Leaders from nearly 200 countries will convene in Geneva for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on December 10-12, an inaugural conference with lofty goals to discuss bridging the digital divide and fostering press freedoms. But a contentious political move to grant an international governing body such as the U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) control over Internet governance issues -- from...