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Obama wins historic US election

Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7709978.stm

2008-11-05

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President Obama and the world

The United States has seen the biggest transformation in its standing in the world since the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7708893.stm

2008-11-05

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Kenyan athletes feel the pinch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7968352.stm

In Iten in Kenya's Rift Valley, people do not walk - they run. This is the so-called athletics capital of Kenya. The high altitude and clean air produces some of the best athletes in the world...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7968352.stm

2009-03-29

running jogging Kenya Marathon

Man bites snake in epic struggle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7999909.stm

A Kenyan man bit a python which wrapped him in its coils and dragged him up a tree during a fierce three-hour struggle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7999909.stm

2009-04-15

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Kenya seizes massive ivory haul

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8283078.stm

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'Miracle baby' home raid in Kenya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3582828.stm

2004-08-20

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Kenya admits armed raids on paper

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4765250.stm

2006-03-02

freedom Kenya censorship

Czech zoo sends rare Northern White rhinos to Kenya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8423243.stm

2009-12-20

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Kenya flower industry hit by flight cancellations

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8626215.stm

Kenya's flower industry has been badly hit by the cancellation of flights across Europe because of the ash cloud caused by a volcano in Iceland...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8626215.stm

2010-04-16

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Kenya police hunt for 'serial-killer cult leader'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10284299.stm

He said he was recruited into a cult while at school by a teacher, who told him to kill 100 people and drink their blood for good fortune.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10284299.stm

2010-06-10

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Geoffrey Mutai runs fastest ever marathon in Boston

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/13116092.stm

Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon men's race in an unofficial world-record time of two hours, three minutes and two seconds...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/13116092.stm

2011-04-18

marathon Boston Kenya running record

Is it wrong to note 100m winners are always black?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14679657

2011-08-27

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How Silicon Valley outsources work to African refugees

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13784487

2011-06-18

Africa refugee Kenya poverty outsourcing Internet work

'Miracle babies' pastor to be extradited to Kenya

An evangelist who claimed to have created miraculous pregnancies through prayer is to be sent back to Kenya to face child abduction charges.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14992891

2011-09-21

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Patrick Makau breaks Haile Gebrselassie's marathon world record in Berlin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/15052378.stm

2011-09-25

Kenya Berlin marathon record

Kenya runner Marko Cheseto has feet amputated in Alaska

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15835528

A Kenyan long-distance runner who spent more than two days lost in snow storms in the US state of Alaska has had his feet amputated just above the ankles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15835528

2011-11-22

Kenya frostbite Alaska cold feet running marathon

Joe Arpaio: Barack Obama birth proof 'may be forged'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17229009

2012-03-02

Barack Obama Kenya president USA birth certificate

Kenya's Rift Valley, where everyone runs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17853592

Kenya produces some of the world's very best distance runners, but the possibility of winning Olympic gold is not the only incentive for the country's athletes...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17853592

2012-04-28

Kenya running jogging motivation

Life on Kenya's Dandora dump near Nairobi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18101593

2012-05-28

photography Kenya waste

Bicycle mobile phone charger for rural Kenya

http://www.youtube.com/watch

2009

bicycle mobile phone energy Kenya