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Kenya's Sylvester Teimet won the Seoul International Marathon on Sunday, pulling ahead in the final seconds to finish in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 49 seconds -- a course record and personal best. The 26-year-old Teimet broke the course record of 2:07:06 set in 2004 by South Africa's Gert Thys and topped his personal best of 2:09:53.
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Rodeo Drive and the Santa Monica Pier are landmarks on the route, which has a slight downhill slope from the halfway point. It starts in the Dodger Stadium parking lot, heads downtown and then winds through West Hollywood and Beverly Hills before finishing as the Los Angeles Marathon of Santa Monica.
TOWNSEND -- "Finding Common Ground Through Cultural Awareness" added to the lineup of events and exhibits held in the Townsend Public Library's meeting space since the magnificent new complex opened earlier this year.
When people in the town of Eldoret in the Rift Valley of Kenya get their drinking water, they will be able to read the names of a group of Springfield Township High School students on a water pipe set up as a monument.
The U.S.-Global Leadership Project, a partnership between the Meridian International Center and Gallup, finds median global approval of the performance of U.S. leadership at 51% in 2009, a 17-percentage-point increase from 2008.
A man from Kenya is ready to plead guilty to a role in an international scam that investigators say duped West Virginia and at least three other states out of more than $3 million.
Armed crews are a good deterrent against Somali pirates, but the problem off the Horn of Africa will only be solved when Somalia itself is at peace, a top US official said Friday.
An exhibition of photographs depicting daily life in Kibera, Kenya, one of Africa’s largest and poorest slums, will be displayed from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight on the museum’s lawn.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A man from Kenya is ready to plead guilty to a role in an international scam that investigators say duped West Virginia and at least three other states out of more than $3 million. Federal prosecutors have requested a guilty pl...
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Friday, March 19, 2010.
Wales and the United States set the Australian round of the IRB Sevens series alight in the opening round with shock wins over Fiji and England here Friday.
NAIROBI, Kenya - These Somali pirates picked the wrong ship to hijack. Troops aboard the Dutch warship HNLMS...
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya plans to build geothermal power plants over the next two to three years that will have the capacity to generate 280 megawatts of electricity, Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi said at a conference today in Nairobi, the capital.
NAIROBI, Kenya — These Somali pirates picked the wrong ship to hijack. Troops aboard the Dutch warship HNLMS Tromp fired warning shots today off the coast of East Africa as suspected Somali pirates in two small skiffs raced toward their warship, the EU Naval Force said.
The Peace and Social Justice Ministry of the Diocese of Joliet is forming new medical and construction mission teams to travel to Naivasha, Kenya, in September .
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Dairy Products in Kenya" report to their offering.
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