The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for more than $230 million (Sh17.5 billion) to provide emergency food aid over the next six months for 3.8 million Kenyans affected by deepening drought and high food prices.
Experts say Kenya’s output of its staple food maize is likely to be just 15 million 90-kg bags this [...]

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Rihanna attacker Brown sentenced
US singer Chris Brown has been sentenced to 180 days’ community labour and five years’ probation for assaulting pop star Rihanna.
The 20-year-old R&B star pleaded guilty in June to beating Rihanna, his former girlfriend, before the Grammy awards in Los Angeles in February.
The judge said Brown must do physical labour, not community [...]

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Layton suggests he’d back bid to dump Harper
By Martin O’Hanlon And Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Jack Layton says Stephen Harper just doesn’t seem to get how bad the unemployment situation is - and it could cost the prime minister his job.
The NDP leader emerged from a meeting with Harper on Tuesday, strongly hinting [...]

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By The Canadian Press
 
OTTAWA - The Harper government is facing fierce criticism over its latest effort to avoid bringing Omar Khadr home from a U.S. military prison.
The government announced Tuesday that it is seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court to dismiss a court order that it seek Khadr’s return.
The move comes after Ottawa [...]

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By The Canadian Press
 
YELLOWKNIFE - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is showing the party flag in the Northwest Territories.
During a visit to Yellowknife Ignatieff tried to dispel rumours of a fall election. He says federal Liberals want good government, not an election.
But he says Canada has a $50 billion deficit and 1.5 million unemployed and the [...]

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By - Leader of the Christian Heritage Party
Drawing international media attention is the plight of a Malaysian woman who will be caned for drinking an alcoholic beverage in a hotel bar. Not all women in Malaysia are subject to such a ruling, in fact 40% are free to drink the same beverage without being [...]

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BY CATHERINE KARONG’O
Budalang’i Member of Parliament Ababu Namwamba has said his constituents were now better prepared to deal with the predicted El Nino rains in September.
He said they had stepped up community awareness on disaster preparedness through a community radio station established by the Constituency Development Fund, Ministry of Special Programmes and the Meteorological Department. 
“We [...]

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Torture victims, from left, Mbewa Ndede, Oyangi Mbaja and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in an undated photo. Mr Ndede’s family will mark ten years since his death on August 30 in Mbita.
Families recount police torture
In Summary
The torture and harassment by the notorious Kenya Police Special Branch often extended to the spouses, parents and siblings of those [...]

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