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Golf great Tiger Woods suffers serious leg injuries in car wreck
By Reuters,
834, February 24, 2021 (EAT)
Golf champion Tiger Woods was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Tuesday with severe leg injuries suffered when his car careened off a road and rolled dow...
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Australia reports no new local coronavirus cases ahead of Australian Open
By Reuters,
1234, February 7, 2021 (EAT)
Australia reported no new local coronavirus cases for a third day on Sunday, as tennis players geared up for the first Grand Slam of the year in Melbo...
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WHO: COVID-19 global death tally could reach 2 million
By Tonny Ndungu,
927, September 28, 2020 (EAT)
A World Health Organization official has warned that the global COVID-19 death toll will likely reach as high as 2 million without an effective vaccin...
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Australia wrestles with coronavirus second-wave, 17 more dead
By Reuters,
909, August 23, 2020 (EAT)
Australia recorded a further 17 new coronavirus deaths on Sunday but infections in the hard-hit state of Victoria, the site of all the latest deaths, ...
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WHO Official: Coronavirus probably can’t be eliminated under current conditions
By VOA,
1757, July 11, 2020 (EAT)
The World Health Organization’s emergencies program chief said Friday that the new coronavirus probably could not be eliminated if current global co...
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Australia reports first COVID-19 death in more than a month, second wave worry stirs
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1134, June 24, 2020 (EAT)
Australia’s second most populous state on Wednesday said a man in his 80s died overnight from the coronavirus, the country’s first death from the ...
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Russia joins 100 countries demanding probe into handling of Covid-19
By CNN,
1055, May 18, 2020 (EAT)
Russian President Vladimir Putin once called Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, a "lone warrior." Putin was joking, but that description is starting t...
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Trump cuts WHO funding over coronavirus as global death toll mounts
By Reuters,
1402, April 15, 2020 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, drawing condemna...
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Australia declares emergency, warns coronavirus crisis could last six months
By Reuters,
911, March 18, 2020 (EAT)
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday declared a “human biosecurity emergency” and said the country’s citizens should abandon al...
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Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, wife test positive for coronavirus
By CNN,
723, March 12, 2020 (EAT)
Actor Tom Hanks says he and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, have been diagnosed with coronavirus. In a statement posted to Instagram, Hanks said he ...
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Six years on, families demand new search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane
By Reuters,
1330, March 8, 2020 (EAT)
Six years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from radars, relatives of the 239 people who were on board are calling on authorities to reviv...
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Coronavirus death toll rises to 106 as first Beijing patient dies
By CNN,
953, January 28, 2020 (EAT)
The new strain of coronavirus spreading across China claimed its first victim in Beijing, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to 106....
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Serena Williams fined Ksh.1M for damaging Wimbledon court
By CNN,
1808, July 9, 2019 (EAT)
Seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams has been handed a $10,000 (approx. Ksh.1 million)fine for damaging one of the practice courts with her r...
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Kenyan woman found dead in Australia as detectives open probe
By Muia Joseph,
1112, June 1, 2019 (EAT)
A 34-year-old Kenyan woman was found dead in Osbourne Park, Australia, days after her family reported her missing. According to Perth Now, an Austr...
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Papua New Guinea PM quits after turmoil, new leader due on Thursday
By Reuters,
1622, May 29, 2019 (EAT)
Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister Peter O’Neill quit on Wednesday after losing the confidence of parliament during weeks of political turmoil in...
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Swedish prosecutor requests Assange’s detention over rape allegation
By Reuters,
1850, May 20, 2019 (EAT)
The Swedish prosecutor heading an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a request with a local court on ...
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Sweden wants to extradite Assange over rape allegation, complicating U.S. effort to try him for conspiracy
By Reuters,
1942, May 13, 2019 (EAT)
Sweden reopened an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday and will seek to extradite him from Britain...
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After data scandals, Australia faces an election under heavy profiling
By Reuters,
1348, May 5, 2019 (EAT)
Australian political parties are using voter email addresses to find matching social media profiles then combining them with the country’s compulsor...
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Bomb scare, suspicious vehicle rattle nervous Sri Lanka amid attack probe
By Reuters,
1108, April 25, 2019 (EAT)
Sri Lankan authorities locked down the central bank and the road leading to the jittery capital’s airport was shut briefly by a bomb scare on Thursd...
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Trump: ‘I know nothing about wikiLeaks’; US seeks assange extradition
By VOA,
1720, April 12, 2019 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he has no knowledge of the website WikiLeaks, after the whistleblowing site’s founder, Julian Assange, was...
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