Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

There was a tragedy at an apartment in Kitengela, Kajiado County when a police officer was killed in a fight with a fellow police officer over a woman. The incident happened on Thursday August 7 night after constable Manaseh Ithiru who was attached to Kitengela police station was thrown out of the fourth floor of an apartment he was with a woman believed to be his girlfriend. Ithiru had earlier at about 7 pm taken a bodaboda to the house of the woman identified as Irene Wavinya Nzioka on Deliverance Road, police said. He was ushered in and enjoyed his…

Convicted triple-murderer Erin Patterson allegedly tried to repeatedly poison her husband, including with cookies she claimed their daughter had baked him, a court has heard. The Australian woman was last month found guilty of murdering three relatives – and attempting to kill another – with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington. The 50-year-old was originally charged with three counts of attempted murder against her estranged husband Simon Patterson, but these charges were dropped on the eve of her trial. The details of the allegations – which Patterson denied – were suppressed to protect the proceedings, but can now be made public…

Even if you have never worked for a big company, you will probably have an idea what the HR and IT departments do. Human resources (HR) deal with people, IT deal with the technology. It might seem like an obvious management division, but some companies are merging the responsibility for those departments under one leader. And a big part of that is to do with the introduction of AI. Some 64% of senior IT decision makers at large companies expect their HR and IT functions to merge within five years, according to a survey by Nexthink, a firm that makes…

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. Billed as “smarter, faster, and more useful,” OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman lauded the company’s new model as ushering in a new era of ChatGPT. “I think having something like GPT-5 would be pretty much unimaginable at any previous time in human history,” he said ahead of Thursday’s launch. GPT-5’s release and claims of its “PhD-level” abilities in areas such as coding and writing come as tech firms continue to compete to have the most advanced AI chatbot.…

US President Donald Trump is pushing to make it easier for Americans to use retirement savings to invest in cryptocurrencies, private equity, property, gold and other kinds of non-traditional assets. On Thursday, he ordered regulators to look for ways to change rules that might discourage employers from including such offerings in workplace retirement accounts, known in the US as 401ks. The move is intended to eventually give everyday workers new access to investments formerly reserved for wealthy individuals and institutions, while opening up previously untouched pools of funding for firms in those fields. But critics say it could increase risks…

Two Pennsylvania police officers were shot in the northeast part of the state, Governor Josh Shapiro said. The troopers were shot were responding to a call and both were transported to local hospitals, state police told the BBC. Authorities said the suspect was shot dead by officers after the two troopers were injured. It’s unclear what type of call the troopers were responding to or why the suspect opened fire. The shooting took place 40 miles (63 km) north of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Shapiro announced news of the shooting at an event he was attending outside Philadelphia. He said he was…

The US has doubled a reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to $50m (£37.2m), accusing him of being “one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world”. US President Donald Trump is a long-time critic of Maduro, who returned to office in January following an election marred by vote-rigging allegations. The results were widely rejected by the international community. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the US would double its already announced reward of $25m (£18.6m), and said Maduro was directly linked to drug smuggling operations. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said the new reward was…

A mob attacked and set on fire a bus that had been involved in a fatal accident in Donholm area, Nairobi. Police said the bus had knocked and killed a rider before a mob turned on it and set it on fire. This was after the passengers and crew present escaped from the bus, police said. No one was injured in the morning drama. The police said they arrived at the scene and found the bus on fire. A mob that was behind the incident had escaped the scene. The body of the rider was moved to the mortuary pending…

A man was stabbed and killed in a robbery incident in Mathare slums, Nairobi. The incident happened Wednesday morning, police said. The victim had crawled to the gate of a Uzima Dispensary and sought medical attention. The facility was closed by then. This was after he had been stabbed in the chest by his assailants, police and witnesses said. A good Samaritan who stumbled on him rushed him to the MSF Hospital along Juja Road where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police were called to the scene and searched the body, recovering Sh3,950 from his pocket. It was not…

A journalist with the Standard Group lost his parents to an accident along the Narok-Bomet Highway. The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon in the Ololunga area, police said. Journalist Edwin Nyarangi said he is mourning the death of his parents, who were involved in the collision with a truck as they traveled to attend his graduation ceremony in Thika Town. “What a sad night team. I have lost my dad and mum in a grisly road accident in a head-on collision with a truck as they were driving to Nairobi to attend my graduation in Mount Kenya University on Friday.…

Four people were killed in two separate incidents involving the robbery of a motorcycle in Lugari area, Kakamega County. Three of the victims were lynched by a mob after being accused of being robbers. The three were also linked to an earlier incident where a bodaboda rider was killed in a robbery incident in Makutano Market area. The drama started on August 3 when the bodaboda rider identified as Aluda Misoga was found murdered after he had carried three pillion passengers who were headed for Bungoma Town. Witnesses and police said the three had pretended to be passengers before they…

A businessman was attacked and robbed of his pistol in an incident in Garissa Town. The victim is a licensed gun holder. He told police that on August 5 he was attacked by three men in Buriburis area as he walked from a mosque to his home. The incident, he said happened at about 8 pm. He added one of his attackers was armed with an AK47 rifle, a pistol and crude weapons and had covered their faces. The attackers seemed to have been waiting for him before they struck him in the head. He fell unconscious before the gang…

A 36-year-old man killed his 20-year-old girlfriend before he died by suicide in Witeithie in Juja, Kiambu County. The woman was a student at TIBS college in Thika Town. A suicide note was found in the house where the bodies lay after the Wednesday murder and suicide incidents, police said. Neighbours said the incident happened on Wednesday August 6 and that they first stumbled on the body of the woman identified as Linet Nkatha who had been strangled to death lying on the floor in their rented house. The woman was a student at a Thika based college. It was…

Donald Trump said there is a “good chance” he could meet the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, following what he described as “very good talks” between his envoy and Vladimir Putin earlier in the day. Asked at the White House whether the two leaders had agreed to such a summit, the US president said there was a “very good prospect”, but did not give further details. The Kremlin earlier issued a vague statement about the talks between Putin and Steve Witkoff, with a foreign policy aide saying the two sides had exchanged “signals” as part of “constructive” talks in Moscow. The…

A “technology issue” that halted United Airlines mainline flights out of departure airports Wednesday night has been resolved, the airline told CNN. “We are working with customers to get them to their destinations after a technology disruption on Wednesday evening,” a United Airlines spokesperson told CNN. “The underlying technology issue has been resolved and while we expect residual delays, our team is working to restore our normal operations.” About 31% of the carrier’s flights were delayed and 1% had been canceled as of 9:45 p.m. ET, according to flight data tracker FlightAware. Passenger Angela Jeffers, whose flight from Nashville to…