By Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter, The Canadian Press
 
TORONTO - The world may not know for quite some time how the outbreak of swine flu will play out, the scientist leading the World Health Organization’s response to the situation warned Friday.
And given that the future path of the virus is unknowable and the possibilities run the [...]

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By Martin O’Hanlon And Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press
 
OTTAWA - The federal government expanded its swine-flu prevention campaign to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as the number of confirmed cases continued to climb Friday.
Officials announced a new “citizen-readiness campaign” as the number of confirmed Canadian cases of the flu strain known as H1N1 jumped to 51 [...]

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By The Associated Press
SCOREBOARD
Chicago at Boston (8 p.m. EDT). The Celtics will play a Game 7 in the first round for the second straight year, completing their thrilling series with the Bulls that has included four overtime games. Boston routed Atlanta last year in a decisive first-round game on its way to its 17th [...]

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By Javed Khan
 
BUNER VALLEY, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces battled the Taliban for control of a strategic northern valley for a fourth day on Friday, killing up to 60 of them, as the government opened talks with an influential cleric to end the violence.
The militants were still in control of parts of Buner valley, just [...]

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Al-Qaeda allies active in Kenya, says US report
By KEVIN J KELLEY NATION Correspondent, New York
 
This handout from IntelCenter obtained from the Internet January 14, 2009 shows a screen grab of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaeda agents responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam remain at large and currently pose [...]

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JOURNALIST’S ENDEVOUR TO CHANGE LIFE OF KARACHUONYO RESIDENTS.
By Agwanda Jakorandoh.
A YOUTHFUL and highly combative upcoming politician, Karachuonyo ODM branch chairman, Mr. Jack Nduri, has adversely transformed the image of the constituency, streamlining political and Socio -economic processes.
 
Nduri, a journalist with “The East Africa  Standard” newspaper and  an NGO executive, has vowed to fight inept leadership [...]

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By Agwanda Jakorandoh
The  World Health Organization (WHO) remains on very high alert over the dangers posed by the deadly Swine Flu. 
WHO Country Director Dr. David Okello said the organization will remain vigilant especially in countries where the flu is yet to be detected like those in Africa and other regions.  
Okello said so far Kenya and [...]

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BY JUDIE KABERIA
Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s office has dismissed a report tabled in Parliament by the Committee on Agriculture, Lands and Natural Resources which implicated his family members in a Sh3.6 billion maize scam.
PM’s Communications Director Dennis Onyango said in a statement on Friday that the committee was settling political scores by dragging the Prime [...]

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BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
MOGADISHU, - A mobile tribunal, a system of fines and a code of conduct: the success of Somali pirates’ seajacking business relies on a structure that makes them one of the country’s best-organised armed forces.
A far cry from the image conveyed in films and novels of pirates as unruly swashbucklers, Somalia’s modern-day [...]

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