With a new Constitution overwhelmingly approved by voters, Kenyan politicians are now talking excitedly about their country's golden future. The final results were announced Thursday, showing that the new Constitution had passed, with 67 percent of Kenyans behind it.
Age old problem: as early as the first Olympic Games in 776 BC, athletes have been altering training and dietary regimens to enhance performance. Particularly in today's society where professional athletes can make millions of dollars a year, the temptation to gain a competitive edge is rife.
In a new notable study, British scientists claim to have found the latest weapon in fighting the world's growing obesity crisis: ordinary seaweed.
Metrorail riders confronted malfunctioning fare gates, glitches with SmarTrip cards and confusion over fares Monday as Metro prepared to relaunch on Tuesday phase two of its largest and most complex fare increase.
President Obama on Saturday vowed to maintain an intense government response until the environment is cleaned up and businesses and communities are made whole.
A handful of Redskins saw their first game action in quite a while on Friday night. Chris Cooley, Chad Rinehart, Clinton Portis and Jeremy Jarmon saw their 2009 seasons cut short due to injury. Others -- Maake Kemoateu and Adam Carriker -- spent all of last season on injured reserves, and both D-linemen looked steady in their first game back.
Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege.
Nearly a dozen current or former lawmakers have been honored by university endowments financed in part by corporations with business before Congress, posing some potential conflicts like that attributed to Representative Charles B. Rangel in an House ethics complaint.
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Thursday banned all exports of grain after millions of acres of Russian wheat withered in a severe drought, driving up prices around the world and pushing them to their highest level in two years in the United States.
It is Friday night at the Chinatown Fair video arcade, one of the last of the traditional arcades left in the city. Amid the kids and the trash-talking and chaos, an older Chinese man stands quietly in the corner playing Jr. Pac-Man.
A federal judge's forceful opinion Wednesday in favor of same-sex marriage is only the beginning of a process that is likely to go all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
Medicare will remain financially solvent for 12 years longer than projected a year ago -- until 2029 -- because of the cost-cutting measures in President Obama's recently enacted health care legislation, the program's trustees reported on Thursday.
The euro area economy grew 1 percent in the second quarter of this year, a much better rate than had been expected, as Germany's best quarterly performance since reunification compensated for slow growth in Spain and Italy and a sharp decline in Greece, according to data released Friday.
Dell has been accused of withholding evidence, including e-mails among its top executives, in a lawsuit over faulty computers it sold to businesses, according to a filing made Thursday. The filing is the latest twist in a three-year-old lawsuit brought by A.I.T. that accuses Dell of selling at least 11.8 million faulty PCs over three years and then trying to hide problems with the computers from customers.
With the high heat and humidity comes a good chance for thunderstorms. The hazardous weather outlook from the Weather Service shows a slight risk of severe thunderstorms Wednesday night, with damaging winds and hail possible.