-Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says Italy stands firmly with Kenya as it seeks a permanent solution to eradicate the Al Shabaab terror menace.
-North Eastern leaders have threatened to move to court to block students from sitting the National examinations if the education crisis in their Counties is not addressed.
-An international human rights organisation says US President Barack Obama should use his upcoming trip to Kenya to raise critical human rights issues with high-level officials.
-An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on Tuesday and survived its close encounter with the distant dwarf planet after a journey of three billion miles (4.8 billion kilometres) and nearly 10 years.
