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Ahead of the verdict on the August 9 election results, the justices in the Supreme Court make statements to the press. The result has been contested by Raila Odinga's legal team who allege the vote tallying process was fraudulently run. IMAGES
These ten silver coins were hidden inside of this bishop piece with a false bottom from an ivory chess set over 500 years ago, most likely to protect the money from theives and robbers. Archaeologists rediscovered the ten coins inside the bishop piece, which date back to the times of renown Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible, found during an urban renovation project replacing old gas pipes in central Moscow. As of now, only the white bishop piece has been found from the set, but archaeologists suspect that all the pieces may have had hollow bottoms.
The M23 rebels in the DR Congo say they won't stop until they've taken the capital. We go to the first town seized by them this week, the strategic city of Goma. Next, the international community has yet to make any firm commitment to military intervention in Mali. In the meantime, a group of young fighters are training to take back the north from Islamists. Finally, a Kenyan movie called "Nairobi Half Life" is hoping to go all the way to the Oscars.
Kenyan authorities began releasing the bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult, almost a year since the discovery of mass graves in a grisly case that shocked the world. One distraught family received four bodies that were loaded into a hearse from a morgue in the Indian Ocean town of Malindi. IMAGES
The United States plays down Kenya's announcement it was putting on hold a police mission to Haiti, saying a transition deal will bring a new government as sought by Nairobi. "I would be concerned of course about any delay, but we don't think that there will need to be a delay," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Focus sur Grace Millane, une routarde britannique assassinée en Nouvelle-Zélande lors d'un rendez-vous Tinder en 2018.