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Kobe Bryant sexual assault case

The Kobe Bryant sexual assault case: 2003 Colorado felony charge under CRS 18-3-402 after a 19-year-old hotel worker's complaint; charges dropped September 1, 2004; civil suit settled.

Kobe Bryant's 81-point game

Kobe Bryant's 81-point game: January 22, 2006 NBA performance vs the Toronto Raptors at Staples Center, Lakers won 122-104; second-highest single-game scoring total behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100 until Bam Adebayo's 83 in 2026.

Kobe child murders

The Kobe child murders (Kōbe renzoku jidō sasshō jiken) were 1997 attacks in Kobe, Japan, in which a 14-year-old killed two children, prompting reform of Japan's Juvenile Law.

Kobe McDonald

Kobe McDonald (born 2007) is a Mayo Gaelic footballer, son of Ciarán McDonald, who won the 2026 All-Ireland SFC, Mayo's first in 75 years, before joining AFL club St Kilda on a rookie contract.

Oct 21, 2026

Kobe Oji Zoo

Kobe Oji Zoo (神戸市立王子動物園) is a municipal zoo in Nada-ku, Kobe, Japan, reopened in 1951, holding about 800 animals of 130 species including koalas; its pandas are gone after Tantan's death and renovations run 2024–2030.

Kobe Paras

Kobe Paras (Kobe Lorenzo Forster Paras), born 1997, is a Filipino basketball player who played for Creighton, the University of the Philippines, and Japan's B.League.

Kobe power station

Kobe power station (神戸発電所) is a coal-fired power plant in Kobe, Japan, owned by Kobe Steel, with four units totaling 2,700 MW supplying Kansai Electric.

Kobe Sanders

Kobe Sanders (born 2002) is an American NBA guard for the Los Angeles Clippers; drafted 50th overall in 2025 after college careers at Cal Poly and Nevada, he re-signed on a four-year, $11.2 million deal in 2026.

Oct 10, 2026

Kobe Steel

Kobe Steel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所), known by the KOBELCO brand, is a diversified Japanese materials group headquartered in Kobe, founded in 1905 and ranked third among Japanese steelmakers.

Oct 21, 2026

Kobe Suma Sea World

Kobe Suma Sea World (神戸須磨シーワールド) is an aquarium in Suma Ward, Kobe, opened June 1, 2024, replacing Suma Aqualife Park; run by Granvista Hotels & Resorts, it is western Japan's only orca aquarium.

Kobee Minor

Kobee Minor (Darrian Minor, born 2002) is an NFL cornerback for the New England Patriots, drafted 257th and last in 2025 (Mr. Irrelevant) after college stops at Texas Tech, Indiana, and Memphis.

Kobi Alexander

Kobi Alexander, born Jacob Alexander, is an Israeli businessman who co-founded Comverse Technology, fled stock-options fraud charges to Namibia in 2006, and pleaded guilty in 2016.

Sep 20, 2026

Kobi Cohen

Kobi Cohen (קובי כהן) is an Israeli signal processing and communications researcher, an Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University known for deep reinforcement learning for dynamic spectrum access.

Oct 22, 2026

Koblandy Batyr

Koblandy Batyr (Қобыланды батыр) is a Kazakh heroic epic about a 15th-century Kipchak warrior who defends his people against enemies, with 29 recorded versions from Kazakh epic singers.

Koblenz

Koblenz is a kreisfreie city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at the Rhine-Moselle confluence (Deutsches Eck). About 113,000 residents; Roman origin as Confluentes; service and administration hub with UNESCO Upper Middle Rhine Valley tourism.

Kōbō Abe (安部公房)

Kōbō Abe (安部公房, 1924–1993), Japanese avant-garde novelist and playwright raised in Manchuria; author of The Woman in the Dunes (1962), translated into 30+ languages; founded Abe Kōbō Studio in 1973.

Kobo eReader

The Kobo eReader is a line of E Ink e-readers made by Rakuten Kobo of Toronto, launched in 2010 and distinguished from the Kindle by open formats and library borrowing.

Kobo Kanaeru

Kobo Kanaeru (コボ・カナエル) is an Indonesian VTuber and singer-songwriter who debuted in 2022 with hololive Indonesia's third generation, and is the most subscribed VTuber in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Kobold

Kobold (German house spirit, Kobolt) is a dwarf-like domestic spirit of German folk belief, helpful but prankish; source of the element name cobalt, a meteorological sprite term, and the D&D reptilian humanoid.

KoBold Metals

KoBold Metals is a Berkeley, California startup founded in 2018 that uses artificial intelligence to explore for copper, lithium, nickel, and cobalt, including the Mingomba copper project in Zambia.

KoboldAI

KoboldAI is an open-source suite for running AI language models on a user's own computer, built around story writing, roleplay, and text generation, including KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite.

kobore

kobore (コボレ) is a Japanese guitar-rock band formed in 2015 in Fuchū, Tokyo, which built its audience through live shows and made its major debut on Nippon Columbia in 2020.

Kobosil

Kobosil (Max Kobosil, born 1991) is a Berlin techno DJ and producer from Neukölln, a Berghain resident 2014–2019, Ostgut Ton artist, founder of R-Label Group and Tote Sonne, and of the fashion brand 44 Label Group.

Kobresia

Kobresia (bog sedge), a Cyperaceae genus described by Willdenow in 1805, now a synonym of Carex (C. subg. Euthyceras, c. 60 species); K. pygmaea dominates 450,000 km² of Tibetan alpine pasture at 3000–6000 m.

Kobryn-Brest-Warsaw Gas Pipeline

The Kobryn-Brest-Warsaw Gas Pipeline is a gas transmission pipeline from Kobryn and Brest in Belarus to Warsaw, commissioned in 1985 as an offshoot of the Soviet Siyaniye Severa system.

Sep 24, 2026

Kobu-gattai movement

The Kobu-gattai movement (公武合体) was a late Edo-period Japanese political current seeking to unite the imperial court and shogunate, centered on Princess Kazunomiya's 1862 marriage to the shogun.

Kobuk Valley National Park

Kobuk Valley National Park is a roadless 1.75-million-acre park in northwestern Alaska, established 1980 under ANILCA, known for the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, the largest active Arctic dunes, and 250,000 migrating Western Arctic caribou.

Kobuki

Kobuki (Korean for "doll") is a differential-drive mobile robot base developed by Yujin Robot of Seoul as the base of the TurtleBot 2, a standard ROS research and education platform released in 2012.