Army tanks will be parked alongside tractors and livestock at the Ploughing Championships later this month.

Russian tanks and troops roamed freely around Gori today and made forays toward the Georgian capital, keeping control of the road that slices through Georgia’s midsection despite Russia’s announcement that a withdrawal had begun.

The Israeli army exploded a two-story building containing a suspected bomb lab south-east of a West Bank refugee camp as reporters looked on yesterday.