Frankie Fredericks has urged Kenya to get tough on doping

The Kenyan government has been urged by the World Anti-doping Agency's athlete committee to set up an independent inquiry into the doping allegations that have surrounded the country's runners in recent months.

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One killed in grenade blast in Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa

Gunmen detonated grenades outside a night club in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa yesterday, killing one person and wounding several others in the latest attack since Kenya sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants.

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Claire Hallissey and Freya Murray celebrate finishing the London Marathon inside Jo Pavey’s time

Pavey could be overtaken in race for final Olympic marathon slot

Hallissey's heroics in London give GB selectors a headache as Kenyans dominate podium places

Claire Hallissey (pictured) seems best placed to target Jo Pavey's time

Glory and Games places up for grabs on London streets

Kenyans chase victory and Olympic spots while British runners have their last chance to qualify

Kenyan police execute terror suspect

A Kenyan rights group says police executed a man suspected of terrorism and may have seized another.

Pre-war Kenya Nazi plot suspicions revealed

Germans who claimed to be catching butterflies in pre-war Kenya caught the attention of British officials who feared the Nazis were plotting to invade East Africa, previously secret files reveal.

Marines from the Navy frigate HMS Portland intercepting and disarming pirates in the Gulf of Aden in 2009

Navy frees four out of five suspected Somali pirates

Britain criticised for 'particularly poor record' in international crackdown on Indian Ocean piracy

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Deals of the week: Scandinavia, Kenya, Bruges

SAS Airlines has a seat sale to cities in Scandinavia. Book before 3 April for reduced fares from Heathrow to Copenhagen (£124); Gothenburg (£128); Oslo and Stockholm (both £136). Travel dates are 29 April to 15 December. Flysas.co.uk

Sport Relief 2012: A letter from today's guest editor, David Walliams

Quality newspapers are normally quite boring. Not monumentally boring, just a bit dull and worthy. If they were a colour, they would be brown.

Police to interview Judith Tebbutt on her return to Britain

Officers will only approach Mrs Tebbutt after she has had time to reacclimatise to life in Britain  

Judith Tebbutt, who was kidnapped six months ago, was handed to British officials in Nairobi yesterday

Kidnappers free tycoon's widow after her friends raise ransom cash

Even while being ushered across a desolate Somali airstrip to the small plane waiting to fly her to freedom yesterday, Judith Tebbutt's release from seven months of captivity was shrouded in uncertainty.

Judith Tebbutt, who was kidnapped six months ago, was handed to British officials in Nairobi yesterday

'I'm just relieved I'll see my son again' – British hostage free after $1m ransom is paid to Somali pirates

56-year-old released six months after Kenyan beach raid that left her husband dead – but will payment encourage kidnappers?

Judith Tebbutt was kidnapped by Somali gunmen last year

Somali pirates free British hostage Judith Tebbutt

A British woman kidnapped from a resort island on the Kenyan coast did not know that her husband had been killed for another two weeks.

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