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Her husband, David Tebbutt, 58, was killed during the attack.

The UK called for the release of a woman kidnapped at a Kenyan beach resort.

At least 75 bodies have been recovered after petrol that had spilled into an open sewer caught fire and sent a wave of flame through a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital, police said on Monday.

A petrol fire broke out in a densely populated slum in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, killing more than 100 people.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 stunned the United States and the world, and pushed both in to a new era: The day remains the most important international event since the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Police arrested Onyango Obama in Massachusetts last month for allegedly driving under the influence. Police has said the sports utility vehicle Onyango Obama was driving failed to make a proper stop at an intersection, and then almost collided with an unmarked vehicle that was being driven by a police officer.

It's an underground prison in the compound of the presidential palace.

Irish musician Bono and Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour are planning a global Olympic-style torch relay, culminating in a concert in Kenya in 2012 to raise funds and awareness about the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.

Spurred by a massive drought in the Horn of Africa, the famine in Somalia has already left tens of thousands of people dead. Making matters worse, Somalia's ineffective government has been unable to counter the crisis on its own, and is desperately relying on the humanitarian efforts of foreign powers.

Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations said on Monday, and hundreds of people are dying each day despite a ramping up of aid relief.

The world's fastest man Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica to a golden 4x100m relay world record in the final race of the 13th world athletics championships on Sunday.

Usain Bolt raced to redemption in 19.40 golden seconds on Saturday to retain his world 200 metres title while Anna Chicherova ended Blanka Vlasic's four-year run as high jump world champion.

A haul of picks, flakes and hand axes, recovered from ancient sediments in Kenya, has been reported to be 1.76 million years old. This is as per a new geological study, being reported in the journal Nature.

According to a new study, ancient humans created advanced tools 1.76 million years ago, much earlier than was previously thought.

Food will be increasingly scarce in famine-struck southern Somalia until next year's harvest, the head of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Thursday.

Kenya's interbank lending rate tumbled to 19.2515 percent on Tuesday from 27.7299 percent the previous day, central bank data showed on Thursday, as the bank's action last week to bring down interbank rates filters through the market.

Food will be increasingly scarce in famine-struck southern Somalia until next year's harvest, the head of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday.

American Bernard Lagat ran like a million bucks to win his 5,000 meters heat at the world championships on Thursday, while Britain's Mo Farah managed to stay out of trouble in a physical second heat to cruise into the final.

A team from the United States and France used an advanced technique to date the dirt, and were able to calculate the age of the tools, which they place at 1.76 million years.

A team from the United States and France has found newly discovered hand axes from about 1.76 million year ago. The team made the discovery after traveling to an archaeological site located along the northwest shoreline of Kenya's Lake Turkana.

A team of French and American researchers unearthed stone axes, cleavers and picks in Kenya that are at least 300,000 years older than previous finds.