Farmers struggle without tools or training (Financial Times)
The Zimbabwean farmer looked older than his 47 years. He could barely stop coughing, having walked 12km to catch a bus to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe s second town, to look for medicines for his daughter. The ticket had cost $Z45,000 barely $1 at the parallel market rate his last remaining cash.

News in Brief (Northern Virginia Times Community)
Weekly radio talk show, Divorce Mediation: Myths & Facts, hosted by Warrenton professional mediator Philip Mulford, has recently expanded to the VoiceAmerica Business Network.

Iraq's war reaches the arts world (BBC News)
A London exhibition asks 25 international artists to imagine a memorial for the war in Iraq - a daunting challenge.

ARTS + FEATURES (St. Petersburg Times)
The story that Lynne Viola has set out to tell in The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin s Special Settlements may seem familiar enough.