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Former Czech-based striker Patrick Oboya, currently out of contract, makes a comeback to Harambee Stars on Wednesday as the Kenya national football team starts training in Nairobi for the six-nation Nile Basin Championship that kicks off in Egypt next …

The year 2010 will go down as the most innovative in terms of development and embracing technology in Kenyan sport.

Gor Mahia say they have raided rival club AFC Leopards and made away with Congolese forward Dimonde Selenge.

Results of 1,103 candidates were cancelled due to cheating in this year’s Standard Eight national examinations.

Girls outshone boys in languages in this year’s final primary education examination.

Private primary schools continued their dominance of the top places at the expense of public schools in this year’s examination.

Residents of Mwakirunge in Kisauni District were on Tuesday morning in shock after a group of youth accompanied by police officers moved into their village and started demolishing houses.

The anti-corruption agency is investigating how several companies and individuals acquired public property in Mombasa.

A man who defiled a 13-year-old girl has been jailed for 20 years.

Education minister Sam Ongeri has dismissed calls to scrap the Kenya Certificate Primary Education examination.

The festive season has registered a sharp increase in road fatalities, forcing the government to call a crisis meeting.

This year’s examinations were tackled by the largest number of candidates ever, thanks to the free primary education.

He cried. Tears of victory freely flowed down his cheeks. Mobbed by parents, relatives and neighbours, Collins Kiprop Metto, 14, attributed his success to hard work and a firm belief that it was possible to be the top boy in Kenya.

Rift Valley districts put up a strong performance in this year’s exams, taking half of the top 50 national slots, according to results released on Tuesday.

British pop superstar Elton John and his partner David Furnish have become the parents of a baby boy born to a surrogate mother in California, Us Magazine reported.

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were the “most admired” man and woman in the United States in 2010, according to an annual Gallup poll.

Israel today ruled out apologising to Turkey over the raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship that killed nine Turkish activists, as another vessel prepared to bypass its blockade of the territory.

Russia today tartly told the West to keep out of its domestic affairs after “unacceptable” criticism by the United States and Europe of the new guilty verdict for jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Somali pirates have released a German-owned chemical tanker with a crew of 22 that had been seized in May, the EU naval task force Atalante said yesterday.

The death toll from a series of Christmas Eve bombings and reprisals in central Nigeria has risen to at least 80, the emergency management agency said on Tuesday, bringing the nationwide toll to 86.

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir pledged today to help build a secure, stable and brotherly state in the south if it votes for independence in a referendum less than two weeks away.

A trio of West African leaders tried today to persuade Cote d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo to stand down, brandishing the threat of force if he refuses to cede power to rival Alassane Ouattara.

WRONG TACTICS. Used to the secretive police investigations of the past, Jimford Kebira is alarmed. Says he: “Every time police investigate a serious crime these days, they release information that should be known only to themselves. Anything recovere…