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The 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards were announced at a red carpet event in London Monday.

President Barack Obama's Kenyan step-grandmother is recovering from shock and bruises after she was involved in a car accident on her way to her village, a relative and hospital official told reporters Monday.

Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, marking her 60th year on the throne.

The famine is Somalia is officially over, the United Nations said on Friday.

Kenyan finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta has found that being charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court is not good for one's political career.

Brent crude slipped below $110 on Wednesday as recession fears, partly rekindled by stalled Greek debt talks, weighed on the outlook for demand, while threats by Iran to respond to European sanctions by shutting a vital trade route supported prices.

In the wake of the forceful evacuation of Samburu tribe, the German Travel Association has warned the Kenyan government that it will not help promoting Kenya as an attractive destination.

Ethiopia's government has seized land from 70,000 indigenous farmers, giving it to commercial developers while leaving the farmers without adequate food or resources, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Africa-focused gold producer Goldplat has poured the first bar of gold from its Kilimapesa mine in Kenya, marking the beginning of production in the east African country's first gold project, the company said on Tuesday.

LONDON, Jan 17 - The downgrade of much of Europe's credit ratings demonstrates in perhaps the bluntest terms so far the collapse of any lingering -- if lazy -- assumptions that developed states are somehow safer than emerging counterparts.

LONDON, Jan 17 - The downgrade of much of Europe's credit ratings demonstrates in perhaps the bluntest terms so far the collapse of any lingering -- if lazy -- assumptions that developed states are somehow safer than emerging counterparts.

Most people commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day turn to his iconic I Have a Dream speech. But King gave another famous speech the night before he died, known as the Promised Land or Mountaintop speech. In it, he alluded to his imminent assassination and the legacy he would leave behind. Listen to the audio file, watch the video, and read the full text of Dr. King's final speech here.

Khat is increasingly popular in Europe, with the Netherlands as a key transport hub.

The UK Foreign Office said it thinks that terrorists are in the “final stages” of planning attacks in Nairobi and perhaps elsewhere in Kenya.

Bashir is regarded as a war criminal in the West and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges he committed genocide in connection with the mass murder of people in the Darfur.

Heavily armed robbers tried to steal a stack of gold bars from a plane at an airstrip near a mine in Tanzania owned by AngloGold Ashanti but were thwarted by the country's police.

Mainland China and 21 other countries will finally launch sales for Apple's most advanced smartphone, the iPhone 4S, on Friday, Jan. 13. The phone will be available in black and white and will sell at the same prices as in the U.S.

Apple fans in China mainland and other 21 countries are going to be crazy after hearing this - iPhone 4S, Apple's hottest handset so far, will reach their shores on Friday, Jan. 13, ending various speculations about local launch dates, that lasted for several months.

At least seven people died Sunday evening when a boat carrying dozens of passengers capsized after hitting another vessel off the Kenyan island of Lamu, the Kenya Red Cross said.

Gunmen sprayed bullets at New Year's revelers in two bars in northeastern Kenya Sunday, killing five people, a witness and police said, the latest in a wave of attacks near the border with Somalia.

Mitt Romney's son Matt made a colossal gaffe in New Hampshire yesterday when he said his father would release his tax records as soon as Obama releases his birth certificate. Though he's since apologized for the dumb joke, both the Obama campaign and the DNC are accusing the Romneys of pandering to the extreme fringes of the GOP, and DNC head R.T. Ryback is demanding Mitt Romney condemn his son's statements.