- Several world leaders have announced they will travel to Rome for Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday, which is likely to also draw a huge crowd in the square in front of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
- Pope Francis' funeral will be held on Saturday in St. Peter's Square, Roman Catholic cardinals decided on Tuesday, setting the stage for a solemn ceremony that will draw leaders from around the world.
- Even as the more than 1.4 billion Roman Catholics around the world continue to mourn Pope Francis, speculation is building as to who among the 135 red-robed cardinals eligible to vote will succeed him.
- The Controller of Budget (CoB) has raised a red flag over a growing financial indiscipline in counties that she says is exposing taxpayers' money to pilferage.
- Six people have died overnight in Nairobi following heavy rains. Three of them—a mother and her two children—were killed when a boulder crushed their house in Mathare.
- The DCI has taken over the probe into alleged human organ trafficking at Mediheal Hospital’s Fertility and Transplant Centre in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County.
- Four individuals have been charged at the Milimani Law Courts with conspiracy to defraud different businessmen by falsely claiming they could import sugar from Brazil to Kenya.
- Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya has announced that the Kenyan government is intensifying efforts to dismantle terrorism financing networks as part of a broader strategy to combat extremism in the region.
- There was drama at Njegas Health Centre in Karii Village, Mwea-West, Kirinyaga County after three individuals were rushed to the facility unconscious, allegedly after consuming toxic alcohol.
- Kisumu Governor Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o has slammed the national government, accusing it of undermining devolution by clinging to functions that should be managed by counties, particularly in the roads sector.
- The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched a probe into an incident where a woman was allegedly assaulted by a police officer in Narok when she went to record a statement.
- Harvard University sued on Monday to block U.S. President Donald Trump from freezing billions of dollars in federal funding after the elite research institution rejected a list of White House demands that it said would undermine its independence.
- Security officers have rescued 57 indisposed persons who have been seeking healing at the controversial Melkio Joseph Mission Messiah church in Rongo, Siaya County and halted prayer activities at the church.
- Pope Francis' funeral will be held on Saturday in St. Peter's Square, Roman Catholic cardinals decided on Tuesday, setting the stage for a solemn ceremony that will draw leaders from around the world.
- Two Kenyans and a Somali national facing terror-related charges will remain in custody for a month after a Nairobi court denied them bond on Tuesday.
- The Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Human Capital Development, and Special Programmes, Geoffrey Ruku, has assured citizens that the issuance of Good Conduct Certificates and other essential government services will be expedited through Huduma Centres across the country.
- A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic Church and the Vatican’s head of state.
- Cardinals gathered Tuesday at the Vatican to begin scheduling Pope Francis’ funeral and burial, planning the conclave to elect his successor and making other decisions about running the Catholic Church as world leaders and ordinary faithful grieved the death of history’s first Latin American pope.
- The Vatican published Tuesday a photo and video of Pope Francis in his open coffin, dressed in a red robe with the papal mitre on his head and a rosary in his hand.
- After spending more than five weeks in hospital for a bout of double pneumonia, doctors told Pope Francis he needed two months' rest - but the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics kept working right to the end.
- China is expected to launch a new crewed mission into space this week, as Beijing takes steady steps towards its goal of putting astronauts on the Moon.
- Pope Francis died of a stroke, causing a coma and "irreversible" heart failure, according to his death certificate released by the Vatican on Monday.
- Pope Francis touched down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, minutes after 4 p.m. on the 25th of November, 2015, to a warm reception by the then President Uhuru Kenyatta.
- As an at-times unwitting star on social media, Pope Francis knew how to exploit the internet to preach the gospel, broadening the Church's appeal while modernising its communications.
- US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fought back Monday -- with White House support -- against another scandal over his reported use of Signal to discuss airstrikes on Yemen, this time with his wife, brother and lawyer.
- President William Ruto will visit Beijing and meet with President Xi Jinping as reciprocal trade tariffs between America and Beijing deepen, and shockwaves in the aftermath of the tariffs rip through the global markets.
- Some cardinals who are being talked about as "papabili" to succeed Pope Francis, whose death at the age of 88 was announced by the Vatican on Monday.
- The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem in Latin and supreme leader -- the pope.
- African leaders praised the "legacy of compassion" and "commitment to inclusivity" of Pope Francis as they joined global mourning over his death on Monday.
- South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in clashes which led to the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar and a spiralling political crisis.
- A hush reigned over the normally boisterous St Peter's Square on Monday as the faithful and the curious alike gathered at the seat of Catholicism to mark the death of Pope Francis.
- The Eiffel Tower's landmark illuminations will be switched off on Monday night in memory of Pope Francis who died aged 88, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said.
- Sunday's scheduled canonisation of the Catholic Church's first millennial saint has been postponed to a later date after the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican said on Monday.
