On Amanpour this Thursday, Christiane Amanpour sits down for an exclusive live interview with the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. In Mugabe's first interview with a major Western media outlet in years, Christiane will explore the historic power-sharing agreement with the unity government there, and get the president's thoughts on the highly-emotive issue of land redistribution. As Mugabe prepares to take centre stage at the United Nations on Friday, Christiane will take the opportunity to ask if the power-sharing agreementin ...

Browsing the shelves at some local libraries can seem like an anthropological expedition, a revealing window into how we once lived. Lacking funding to update their collections, library shelves are too often populated with books that are increasingly outdated, irrelevant — or just downright insane. Enter a duo of Detroit-area librarians. Frustrated by aging tomes and seeking a way to enliven an upcoming industry-convention speech, Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner started Awful Library Books, a blog that catalogs the ...

What's the last thing people want in a recession? More kids, apparently. According to data-tracking firm the Nielsen Co., dollar sales of products in the "family planning" category, which include condoms and over-the-counter female contraceptives, were up 10.2% for the first two months of this year. Unit sales were up 1.5%, which indicates that consumers are willing to pay higher prices today to prevent crib expenses tomorrow. But economics alone can't explain this protectionism. To cut expenses, consumers are going ...