Five people were killed and as many as 75 were injured in an explosion at a packed church rally in a park in the centre of Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Christian leaders called the mass meeting to boost opposition to a new constitution to be voted on in a referendum in August. A petrol bomb was thrown... 

Hundred  of  Nyeri commuters have been left stranded or forced to walk long distances because of a traffic crackdown . Police have announced a massive traffic crackdown in the wake of escalating road accidents in Kenya. Over 1,000 people have died in road accidents in the past four months prompting the operation... 

LONDON – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a dramatic bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in elections last week, announcing he will resign by September at the latest even if the Liberal Democrats — being wooed by the Conservatives — decide to join his party in... 

Yar’Adua had not been seen since February when he returned from treatment in Saudi Arabia [EPA] Nigeria’s president has died after a long illness, an official at his office has said. Umaru Yar’Adua reportedly died around 2100 local time (2000 GMT) on Wednesday evening... 

Two students were killed after a landslide hit their home in Kihara village, Igana sub-location, in Mukurwe-ini District following heavy rains pounding the area.Mukurwe-ini DC Isaac Masinde said that the two John Kibuthi 17, a student at Kiathugu secondary school and his sister Martha Wahito 20, a form three student... 

Two US companies that sell internet domain names have stopped registering new domains in China amid what they say are increasingly tough regulations from the Chinese government. The news comes just two days after internet search giant Google pulled the plug on its Chinese search site in protest at Beijing’s... 

An Egyptian court has upheld a verdict to disallow France Telecom from purchasing shares in Mobinil, the country’s biggest mobile phone company. France Telecom’s offer to buy the outstanding shares in Mobinil at $44.4 per share is unfair to minority shareholders, Hamdi Yassin, the presiding judge in... 

The death toll from Thailand’s worst political violence in nearly two decades has risen to 20. More than 800 people were also wounded in clashes between anti-government protesters known as the “red shirts”, and security forces. The figures, given on Sunday by the Erawan Medical Centre, rose overnight... 

Sir Alex Ferguson admitted Chelsea were now favourites to win the Premier League after his Manchester United side were held to a goalless draw with Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. United, without the injured Wayne Rooney, relied on Dimitar Berbatov in attack but the best two chances of the game fell to Antonio Valencia... 

Pope Benedict, in a previous post as a high Vatican official, recommended caution in the defrocking of a California Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to molesting children, according to a letter released on Friday by lawyers for the victims. In the 1985 letter, typed in Latin and translated for The Associated...