A UNITY government led by President Robert Mugabe may be the best way to break Zimbabwe's post-election deadlock, state media said today, as the first result from a recount of votes was declared.

With the political decks cleared for taking the India-US nuclear deal forward and elections looming on the horizon, the government has launched a publicity blitz by taking out full-page advertisements in leading newspapers in support of the deal.

Washington, June 16 : English singer-songwriter George Michael believes that high-powered politicians drive the media to cover his and Britney Spears' private lives so that they may keep the "real news' off the front pages of the top newspapers.

File photo shows farmers working in a cotton field in China's northwest Gansu province. Up to 2,000 people attacked a local Communist Party headquarters in northwest China early Tuesday in protest over a land dispute, state media reported.

The news is bleak for media outlets in the Caucasus and Central Asia, according to an annual report released by Freedom House on April 29. And the forecast calls for periods of repression, heavy at times.