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  • World 27 year-old multimillionaire not bothered about luxuries

    Box , Levie is too focused on work to be bothered about luxuries. He doesn't leave the office until the early hours of the morning at least six days a ...

  • World China asks N Korea to free boat crew

    Korea n captors were demanding a 600,000 yuan ($100,000, ?66,000) ransom. State-run Xinhua news agency said that diplomats in Pyongyang had been asked for help on 10 May and were working on the issue. "Upon receiving the call, the Chinese embassy promptly made representations to theDPRK ...

  • World Briton held in France over deaths of two children

    Both had reportedly been killed with a knife. Prosecutors in France say the man has confessed, AFP said. The Foreign Office said it understood a British national had been arrested. The children's mother had left them alone with their father, apparently for the first time since their divorce a couple of years ago, said BBC correspondent Hugh Schofield. According to witnesses, the mother had ...

  • Lifestyle Sunshine vitamin may treat asthma

    vitamin on a chemical in the body, interleukin-17. It is a vital part of the immune system and helps to fight off infections. However, it can cause problems when levels get too high and has been strongly implicated in In this study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical ...

  • Kenya activist on ivory charges

    A top official in a Kenyan conservation group has been charged with illegal possession of 19 kilograms of elephant ivory worth more than $A20,000.Susan Soila, 50, deputy director of the community development wing of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, a not-for-profit organisation conserving wildlife in one of Kenya's most famous national parks, was arrested on Sunday along with her son.Both ...

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Capturing the Friedmans

Capturing the Friedmans

Andrew Jareckis Sundance award-winning documentary Capturing the Friedmans is two things at once: a probing look at the social panic surrounding child abuse and a disturbingly close portrait of a family in disintegration. ...

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  • KenyaTanzania to Launch Major Security Operation On Border

    A major security operation is underway at the Kenya-Tanzania border to curb illegal firearms and criminal gangs. This follows recent's killing of five people in Naikarra after bandits believed to be from Sonjos community in Tanzania attacked them. They resolutions were reached on Wednesday by the leaders and the security team from both countries in a meeting held at Olderkesi area. Narok ...

  • Embu Man Denies Defiling Niece Five

    A man has denied charges of defiling his 5-year-old niece in an Embu court. Stephen Thigah was accused that on May 13 at Karurina Village he defiled his niece. Embu Chief Magistrate Margaret Wachira released him on Sh100,000 bond and a surety of a similar amount. The magistrate instructed prosecutor Frank Mnene to give the accused copies of witnesses' statements. Embu police boss Gasper ...

  • Kenya to Be Honoured At Cannes Film Fest

    Kenya will be among the countries honoured during this year's International Cannes Film Festival in France. The festival one of the world's most prestigious and publicised film events kicked off Wednesday and will run till May 26. For the first time in its more than six-decade long history, Kenya will host a national pavilion at the Cannes International film market. According to Kenya ...

  • ICC Now Asked to Investigate Its Prosecutors

    Nairobi - Ugandan peace resolution expert David Matsanga has now written to International Criminal Court urging it to consider investigating the prosecutors over what he terms a 'flawed investigation' in the Kenyan cases. In the letter to the president of the court, Matsanga insists that former prosecutor (Moreno Ocampo) his successor Fatou Bensouda did not properly investigate the ...

  • Kenya Thuraya Announces Satellite Adaptor for Iphone

    When we think about satellite phones we are used to the bulky and ruggedness of the Iridium, or Inmarsat satellite phones. Never before have we thought that a satellite phone could be as sleek and user friendly as our everyday mobile phone. Indigo telecom has changed that with the launch of Thuraya SatSleeve in Kenya. The new Thuraya SatSleeve is an adaptor for the iPhone that allows calls to ...

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