Kenya's plans to have a house at the London Olympics in Britain where they will showcase the East African nation's culture and hospitality received a boast on Thursday.
This is after Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) donated 301,204 US dollars towards the plan spearheaded by Brand Kenya.
KCB Group chief executive Martin Oduor-Otieno said on Thursday that the firm was glad to be part of the Kenya Hospitality House at the London Olympics, which will take place between July 27 and August 12 this year.
"We are delighted to be partnering with Brand Kenya in the hospitality house. This really is going to be an exciting opportunity for us and the Kenyan people in celebrating Team Kenya as it goes for gold medals at the games," said Oduor-Otieno.
He noted that the Kenya Hospitality House was a historic facility that will bring Kenyan in Diaspora and other visitors together in one place as a dedicated audience.
The Kenya House, according to Brand Kenya, will be a place where ... more

Flamengo was eliminated from the Copa Libertadores on Thursday after a dramatic victory by Emelec over Olimpia in Paraguay's capital Asuncion.
Defender Jose Quinonez scored the injury-time winner as Ecuador's Emelec overcame the Paraguayans 3-2 to secure a spot in the tournament's knockout phase.
The result meant Flamengo's 3-0 victory over Argentinas Lanus at the Engenhao stadium in, also on Thursday night, was in vain.
It was a bitter-sweet night for Flamengo supporters, who a more

Juventus regained the top spot of the Serie A after they beat Palermo 2-0 while AC Milan lost to Fiorentina 2-1 at home on Saturday.
Leonardo Bonucci and Fabio Quagliarella found the net for the visitors in the second half of a one-sided game. The win put Juve one point clear of Milan in a two-horse race for the Scudetto which looks likely to go down to the wire.
Juventus head coach Antonio Conte preferred "to lead because that way you depend on nobody except yourself," and told Juv more

Adam Sandler has set another dubious record, this time in the realm of the 32nd annual Golden Raspberry Awards, as the comedian took home Sunday 10 awards including the worst film and worst actor and actress.
Sandler, who entered the contention with a record 11 nods as a frontrunner for the ceremony, also known as the Razzies, won the two top honors for his cross-dressing comedy "Jack and Jill," making the film the first of its kind to have ever swept every category in the event's 32-ye more

"The Hunger Games" stayed atop the North America box office chart this weekend, garnering 61.1 million U.S. dollars in ticket receipts which successfully helped the latest Lionsgate actioner to fend off a pair of new films.
Widely regarded as the real first big blockbuster of the year, "The Hunger Games" saw its sales at 4,137 locations in the U.S. and Canada dropped by 60 percent, a dramatic slide for the independent filmmaking firm's tentpole film. However, the film continued drawing more

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has called for frustrated fans to be patient as the team tries to turn around their wretched run of results, the Daily Express said on Friday.
Six defeats in seven league matches have prompted all kinds of outpourings from disgruntled supporters.
"There are a lot of challenges ahead this season. I'd ask the supporters to be patient; we will get it right," said the England international. "We have had a mixed March. We're in a league position we're not more

The U.S. dollar climbed against major currencies this week as concerns about the European debt crisis again weighed on the euro and upbeat U.S. job data helped restore investors' confidence in the U.S. economy.
The dollar index gained 1.4 percent to 80.076 in the past week. Meanwhile, the euro dropped 1.9 percent against the dollar to 1.308.
The minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest monetary policy meeting showed that the policymakers acknowledged recent signs of slightly stronger more

Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure has officially resigned weeks after being toppled in a military coup that came just months before his term was to end.
A mediator for ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, said he received Mr. Toure's resignation letter Sunday.
An ECOWAS official tells VOA that the group has lifted harsh economic sanctions against Mali, saying it is satisfied the military is committed to restoring constitutional rule.
But the official says i more

The finance ministers of China and Japan agreed on Saturday that the Japan-China financial cooperation has been steadily moved forward.
Xie Xuren, Minister of Finance of China, and his Japanese counterpart Jun Azumi pledged to deepen financial cooperation by working with other relevant institutions at the fourth Japan-China finance dialogue in Tokyo.
In March, Japanese government announced that it got the permission from China to purchase 65 billion yuan (about 10.3 billion U.S. dol more

Little more than a year after being hailed as Flamengo's savior, supporters of Brazil's biggest club want Ronaldinho out.
An emphatic 83 percent of respondents to a poll conducted by popular soccer website Lancenet said the former Barcelona and AC Milan star should be sold by the club.
It follows a string of poor performances, culminating in Wednesday's 3-2 defeat by Ecuador's Emelec that has left Flamengo facing almost certain elimination from the Copa Libertadores.
Ronaldinho, more