A Norwegian man of Somali origin is suspected of helping to plan and carry the attack on a Kenyan shopping centre last month, it has been claimed.

Kenya’s military spokesman has confirmed the names of the four attackers implicated in the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, which killed more than 60 people last month.

Another arrest has been made over the deadly Westgate mall attack, Kenya’s interior minister says.

A harrowing video filmed by the Kenyan Red Cross shows responders rushing to help the injured shortly after the assault on the Westgate mall began.

FBI experts have begun fingerprint, DNA and forensic analysis to help identify victims and the gunmen who attacked a Kenya shopping centre, killing more than 60 people.

Kenyan troops were still searching for bodies in the wreckage of the Nairobi shopping mall today as its terrorist al-Shabab attackers tried to claim the destruction was not their fault.

Kenyan authorities prepared for the gruesome task of recovering dozens more victims than initially feared after the president declared an end to the four-day siege of a Nairobi shopping mall by al Qaida-linked terrorists.

Fighting between a community of cattle herders and farmers over land and water has killed 12 people in Kenya's south-east, the Kenya Red Cross said.

Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and often execute criminal suspects and other individuals with impunity, a UN expert said.

Kenya's opposition party called for another day of "peaceful rallies" across Kenya in defiance of a ban and despite 20 deaths in this week's demonstrations.

Fresh fears of ethnic violence swept Kenya today after another tribal group became ensnared in the county's continuing political row.

Kenya’s main opposition leader today scuppered plans for peace talks it was hoped would end the political violence threatening to tip the country into chaos.

The Catholic bishop of one of the Kenyan towns worst hit by the ethnic clashes said today that the attacks appeared well planned and organised.

Kenya’s opposition leader called today for rallies across the country, raising the prospect of renewed bloodshed even as he indicated he was willing to negotiate a power-sharing agreement to resolve the explosive electoral crisis.

As many as 8,040 young Kenyans have been executed or tortured to death since 2002 during a five-year police crackdown on an outlawed sect, according to a report by a group of Kenyan lawyers.

A statement attributed to Osama bin Laden’s terror group al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya and the attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter jet the same day.

Kenyan and Israeli authorities were today working on reassembling hundreds of shattered fragments of the vehicle used in a suicide attack three days ago on a resort hotel frequented by Israeli tourists in which 16 people were killed.

A Mossad-led team of Israeli experts was carrying out sweeping searches in Mombasa today, after the two terrorist attacks on their countrymen.

Police are holding a total of 12 people for questioning in connection with the attacks in Kenya.

Warnings of a possible terrorist attack in Mombasa were in circulation weeks before yesterday’s devastating attack on Israeli tourists in the Kenyan resort.

An Israeli army team today began evacuating tourists injured in a deadly suicide bombing at a beach resort in Kenya as investigators sought to determine who was behind twin attacks.

Two people are being questioned after suicide terrorists killed 15 people in an attack on a Kenyan tourist resort hotel.

A Beirut-based group calling itself the Army of Palestine has claimed it carried out two attacks on Israeli tourists in Kenya.

Israeli rescue services said the two dead children in today's explosion in the lobby of a hotel popular with Israelis in Mombasa, Kenya were 12 and 13-year-old brothers from the Jewish settlement of Ariel on the West Bank.

A missile attack on a passenger plane is something the aviation industry has long feared, experts said today.

Passengers targeted in today’s failed missile attack on an Israeli airliner said they heard a loud boom just after takeoff, but were told by the crew it was a technical problem.

Suspected Islamic terrorists crashed a large car bomb into a resort hotel filled with Israelis in Kenya today, killing 11 tourists and staff.

Eleven people were killed and 80 wounded in a hotel attack in Mombasa, the Kenyan ambassador to Israel said.

The bomb attack that left several people dead in Kenya has all the hallmarks of an al-Qaida attack, an international terrorism expert said today.

The Kenyan ambassador to Israel says he has “no doubt” al-Qaida was behind the attacks on Israeli tourists.

Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the two had died in the apparent suicide attack on the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel, but could not confirm other reports putting the death toll as high as eight.

Children were among the injured today when an explosion rocked the lobby of a hotel popular with Israelis in Mombasa, Kenya, Israeli officials said.

An Israeli plane was hit in missile attack over Kenya, and is preparing for emergency landing in Nairobi, Israel TV says.