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Since commercial air travel took off in the 1950s, much has changed—tighter seats, safer flights, the rise and fall of seat-back screens—but not the nature of the planes themselves. The tube-and-wing design, after all, is reasonably efficient and structurally sound. And what other shapes would...

Two children have died and 11 others admitted to Busolwe General Hospital, Butaleja District after eating suspected ‘poisonous’ pancakes commonly known as kabalagala. The victims are all children of Mr Kalimu Mulongo, a residents of Mabale village, Mabale parish in Budumba Sub County...

Kenya’s Ambassador to South Sudan, Chris Karumba Mburu, is dead. Mburu, a former director at the National Intelligence Service (NIS), collapsed and died at his residence in the capital Juba on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. In his condolence message, President Uhuru Kenyatta...

Former national security adviser John Bolton spoke publicly — for the first time since the start of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump — at a lecture on Monday at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. On multiple occasions, he referred to his upcoming book, … Read more...

The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide. Her son had been sexually abused by a priest of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced religious order. And now she was calling Cardinal Valasio De Paolis — the Vatican official appointed by the … Read more via...