The opening of a commercial aloe processing factory in Baringo this month removes the trade from just a few well-connected people to hundreds of local farmers.

The Race: Talladega 250 The Place: Talladega Superspeedway The Date: Oct. 7, 2006 The Time: 3:15 p.m. (ET) Race Distance: 250.04 miles (94 laps) TV: SPEED, 2:30 p.m. (ET) Track Layout: 2.66-mile banked oval Race Purse: $753,800 2005 Winner: First

FRANK KIMMEL & STEVE WALLACE STEVE WALLACE: ON THE NEW RACING SURFACE AT TALLADEGA: "To be honest, I've never been here before and I've never been on a superspeedway. So this is my first time here, but the track is

This Saturday, the lines are drawn in Major League Soccer and some teams will advance while others will watch and wait. All six games have serious ramifications on the race to the MLS Cup Playoffs. Three teams have clinched playoff

BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Dutch Princess Maxima is pregnant with her third child with Crown ...

BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso called here ...

BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Friday that he ...

Gregoire moved a planned fund-raising dinner from the governor's mansion to a restaurant after an ethics complaint was filed.

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - More than 150 Brazilians were murdered each day last year on average, putting Brazil on a par with some war zones in terms of its homicide rate, the Justice Ministry said on Monday.

SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) Washington Federal, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFSL) announced today that Roy M. Whitehead will succeed Guy C. Pinkerton as chairman of the board of directors of Washington Federal, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Washington Federal Savings.

HOUSTON Today, after yet another ugly loss, the Houston Texans were embarrassed. The Texans have not just lost en route to their 0-3 record.

A museum celebrating London's heritage as a leading theatrical centre is to close after more than 80 years. The future of the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden was thrown into question when the Heritage Lottery Fund twice refused to back

In a fresh sign of the intense strains placed by the Iraq war on the US military, America's top uniformed army officer has refused to submit his service's budget request for fiscal 2008. General Pete Schoomaker, chief of staff of

A businessman who donated more than £2m to the Liberal Democrat party has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for what a judge described as a "deliberate" and "well thought-through" fraud. Michael Brown, 40, pleaded guilty to one charge of

Why are we asking this now? Michael Stone, a drug addict with a severe personality disorder, is serving three life sentences in Wakefield prison for the murders of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, six, as they walked down a

The grandfather of a baby girl savaged to death by two rottweilers was seriously injured and his partner killed in a separate incident at their home, hours after the dog attack. John Brightwell and his partner Debra Larn were stabbed

Gordon Brown staked his claim to be Labour leader and Prime Minister yesterday with a highly personal speech to the party conference in which he set out his political philosophy. The Chancellor sought to halt a slide in his opinion

Safia Amajan promoted women's education and work - a fairly ordinary job in most places - but in the Afghanistan of a resurgent Taliban it was a dangerous path to follow. She was a target, and yesterday she was gunned

Henri Jayer, winemaker: born Vosne-Romanée, France 1922; married 1942 Marcelle Rouget (two daughters); died Dijon, France 20 September 2006. Compared with the grandeur of Bordeaux châteaux and their proprietors, the wine of Burgundy seems the creation of inspired artisans and