When God comes calling: How meeting with Pope touched film celebrity Dolores Hart who ditched Hollywood fame for the serenity of the convent
“In 1957, a 19-year-old actress nobody had heard of was handed the role of love interest to the most electric performer on the planet. Her name was Dolores Hart. His name was Elvis Presley. Filming began on Loving You. On her very first day on set, the director told her...
Ex-Siaya governor accuses president Ruto of plotting former minister’s financial troubles after he tried to grab his luxury hotel by coercion
Following the facts that are emerging, Rasanga has threatened to mobilise thousands of Siaya residents to march and occupy the property in dispute in Nairobi. The former governor says Siaya residents cannot afford to keep quiet as one of their sons is being harassed.
Banking, insurance and financial services provider Old Mutual Holdings rakes in $6.6m to double its profits
The profit was driven by double-digit growth in asset management and strong performance in life business and represents a two percent increase from Ksh838 million recorded in 2023.
Chinese ‘gravity-fed’ irrigation technology spurs hopes of three crop seasons in Busia, Siaya in Lake Victoria Basin
According to data from Kenya’s National Irrigation Authority (NIA), the project has directly benefited more than 12,500 farming households in Siaya and Busia counties, securing irrigation for 11,000 acres (about 4,451.5 hectares) of agricultural land and providing a strong guarantee for local food security.
Turkana deputy governor calls for local skills development in readiness for nascent oil industry
Turkana Deputy Governor John Erus has appealed for urgent investment in skills development to prepare local youth for employment opportunities expected from renewed oil and gas exploration in South Lokichar basin. Speaking when he hosted a delegation from Swisscontact, Dr Erus said the county must begin addressing workforce requirements of...
Push for Aberdare Forest water tower restoration picks up with launch of campaign to protect the vast catchment area
Chief Executive Officer of Water Service Providers Association (WASPA) Anthony Njaramba noted that water resources in the country are becoming increasingly scarce, calling for prudent measures to manage them. Mr Njaramba said environmental conservation is one of the key interventions needed to ensure water towers do not dry up.
Inside China’s robot boot camp where robots are trained to performs tasks as race to feed hungry AI heats up
Ye Yangsheng, co-founder of Shanghai-based SEER Robotics, already noted at the 2025 Zhangjiang Embodied AI Developer Conference in May that humanoid robots require massive amounts of data for training, but collecting data in real-world environments is extremely costly.
New cancer study reveals women survive cancer more often than men but face severe side-effects
The study provides some of the clearest evidence yet that biological sex is a key predictor of outcomes in cancer care, said lead author Natansh Modi.
China queries US 301 trade probe in 60 economies it says seriously disrupts international economic and trade order
China, a founding member of the International Labour Organization, has ratified 28 international labour conventions and established a comprehensive system of labour laws and regulations to prevent and combat forced labour, the spokesperson said.
Plantation owners threw Black male slave into murky swamp but it refused to bury him, he survived and came back for all 43 of them
The procession toward the swamp moved slowly. Cypress knees jutted from the mud like broken bones. Spanish must swayed overhead. The torches hissed in the damp air. The swamp, vast and black, waited without ripple. Local folklore held that the swamp was bottomless in places that bodies thrown into it were never found. Alligators fed deep within its channels.