The police raid discovered 340 elephant tusks, weighing 1,160 kilogrammes, and 65 rhino horns, weighing 124 kilogrammes.
Egyptians and Syrians eat over 150 kilogrammes a year; Tunisians over 200kg.
I couldn't do any weights, so I lost about seven kilogrammes of muscle and looked different.
When I saw the GP that Christmas Eve I weighed 111 kilogrammes – 17 stone and six pounds.
Everyone is intensely aware of it, the way the bite-strength of a rottweiler is measured in kilogrammes.
Owner Vernon Yates, who runs wildlife sanctuary the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, in Florida, had become concerned when Ty seemed to lose his appetite and could only manage 2 kilogrammes of food a day, instead of his usual 7 kilogrammes.
One of these dynamometers is graduated for every 200 grammes up to 100 kilogrammes, the other for every 100 grammes up to 10 kilogrammes, and they cannot be depended on for results within the tenth of a kilogramme.
Each fan attending the gig is estimated to generate 13 kilogrammes of the gas and the fans account for 90percentnt of the entire concert emissions.
Immediately after London, Varnish struggled with a disc injury that forced her to have five months off her track bike and meant she lost seven kilogrammes of muscle.
A rising appetite for meat is also a critical factor as many kilogrammes of grain are needed to produce one kilogramme of meat.
In mechanics the forces to be compared and measured usually amount to several kilogrammes, and powerful spring dynamometers are most suitable for their estimation.
