France, Spain and Greece were among the European countries to record marked increases in new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, fuelling fears of a second spike in infections during the holiday season.
France added another 1,695 new cases …
Like compartments on a submarine in distress, state borders in Australia are closing down to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Alarmed at a surge in infections, Queensland has already banned almost all residents from Victoria.
It will do th…
Eight patients at a Covid hospital in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad have died after a fire broke out inside its critical care unit.
Senior fire department official Rajesh Bhatt told BBC Gujarati that the blaze had spread after a …
TC’s Energy USA has signed an ambitious agreement with Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Ltd and Seabased of Sweden to finance and revive the Ada Foah Energy Project, which has come to a standstill.
With the agreement, the par…
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has warned communities located downstream of the White Volta to move to higher grounds as Burkina Faso readies to spill water from two dams.
In a press release issued August 5, NADMO…
Latin America’s coronavirus crisis is forcing Uber to adopt the taxi model it was meant to drive off the streets of cities from Santiago to Medellin.
Uber’s U-turn has been prompted by a pandemic-linked regulatory clampdown in countries…
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has directed that a Mathematics tutor of the Kade Senior High Technical School (SHTS) in the Eastern Region, Mr Evans Yeboah, be interdicted.
Directiv…
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has called on Ghanaians to draw useful lessons from the sacrifices made by the founding fathers of the country and work together for national development.
He said the attainment of Gha…
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) will from today, shut down the Kpong Treatment Plant that serves water to the north eastern parts of Accra for repair works.
As a result, water supply will be interrupted from 6 a.m. today to 6 a.m…
Former President John Dramani Mahama, Flagbearer, National Democratic Congress (NDC), says he is committed to building a just and equal society where all Ghanaians will benefit from opportunities in the country.
He said the next NDC adm…
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has announced his intention to quite active politics after the end of eight session of Parliament on January 6, 2025.
He said after serving Member of Parliament since Jan…
Bristol City Women will play their home games primarily at Bath City's Twerton Park next season, plus some matches at Ashton Gate.
The move sees the Women's Super League side leave their previous home of Stoke Gifford Stadium in north B…
Steven Fletcher has been offered a one-year contract by Celtic after the 33-year-old striker rejected a new deal with Sheffield Wednesday.
But no agreement between the player and the Scottish champions has been reached as yet.
Fletch…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Wednesday commissioned the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) at Somanya in the Eastern Region.
The new university, funded through the Italian Export Credit Agency, SACE, a…
Forward Neeskens Kebano has extended his contract with Fulham following the club's promotion to the Premier League.
The DR Congo international scored five goals in 19 appearances in 2019-20, as the Whites finished fourth and went on to …
To reduce the activities of fraudsters in the Mobile Money (MoMo) activities of MTN users, MTN Ghana has developed aggressive mechanisms to deal with the fraudsters and protect the accounts of subscribers.
The step is to discourage the …
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has announced that its partner SONABEL, the Agency responsible for the Management the Bagre and Kompienga dams in Burkina Faso will start the annual spillage from today, August 5 to Mon…
Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo on Wednesday presented food items to the Tema Traditional Council towards this year’s Homowo festival.
Among the items donated were bags of maize, bags of palm nuts, alcoholic and non-alcoholic bevera…
Mr. Kurt E.S. Okraku President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has inspected a 6.5-acre land secured by the federation at Wintogo, Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region for the construction of an AstroTurf.
The land, which was don…
Asante Kotoko goalkeeper Felix Annan has said he’s training and working harder to be back as the number one first-choice goalkeeper for Ghana Premier League (GPL) side.
Annan, who was once the favorite number one goalie was relegated to…
Pope Francis has sent this tweet out:
Pope Francis @Pontifex
Let us pray for the victims of the explosions in Beirut and for their families; and let us pray for Lebanon so that, through the dedication of all its social, political and rel…
Amazon has found a new partner to expand the reach of its cloud services business — AWS — in India, the world’s second largest internet market.
On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant announced it has partnered with Bharti Airtel, the third-…
Lebanon's economy minister says the country has just enough grain reserves for "a bit less than a month" after the blast destroyed its main silo.
Raoul Nehme told news agency Reuters that the country needed at least three months' worth of…
The explosion has left as many as 300,000 people homeless, Beirut's governor has told AFP news agency.
Marwan Aboud added that the estimated cost of the explosion is somewhere between $3bn and $5bn (£2.2bn and £3.8bn), with damage spreadi…
Former first lady Michelle Obama is wishing her husband Barack Obama a happy 59th birthday with a sweet social media post.
”Happy birthday to my favorite guy,” she wrote. “Here’s to all the good days, blue skies, and new adventures to c…
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented demand that the United States get a cut of the proceeds from the forced sale of Chinese internet giant ByteDance’s short-video app TikTok is based on an interpretation of U.S law that regulatory lawye…
More than 700,000 deaths involving Covid-19 have now been recorded worldwide, according to the latest tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Overall, the US has reported the most deaths (156,830), followed by Brazil (95,819), Mexico (48,869),…
Sri Lanka is holding parliamentary elections that were delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
In the capital Colombo this morning I joined tens of thousands who decided to trust the election commissioner's assurances of safety and made my…
Gold has topped $2,000 (£1,527) an ounce for the first time as traders look for havens amid the pandemic.
Investors have moved cash into the precious metal as Covid-19 cases rise in the US and more money is pumped into the global econom…
Sweden, which avoided a lockdown during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, saw its economy shrink 8.6% in the April-to-June period from the previous three months.
The flash estimate from the Swedish statistics office indicated that th…
Ghana Police say the have arrested the fetish priestess who allegedly took part in the lynching of late Madam Akua Denteh.
Police Superintendent, Mrs Sheila Kessie Abayie-Buckman, Director, Police Public Affairs Unit, said Sherina Moham…
Drugs, alcohol, more than half a billion dollars vanished and allegations of domestic violence.
These are the makings of a PR nightmare, enough to ruin even the biggest star’s career. But for Johnny Depp, these headlines have become his…
Disney+ had more than 60.5 million paying subscribers as of yesterday, according to The Walt Disney Company’s CEO Bob Chapek.
Chapek shared the number during a call to discuss the company’s latest earnings report, which covered Disney’s…
Egypt has withdrawn from the renewed talks on the future of a giant hydropower project on the Nile River being built by Ethiopia.
The latest standoff is over new filling guidelines proposed by Ethiopia.
Sudan has also threatened to w…
A Nigerian airline has sacked more than 100 pilots and engineers in another wave of sacking in the troubled aviation sector.
Bristow Helicopters has been forced to restructure due to the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
T…
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic could run out of cash next month if creditors do not approve a £1.2bn rescue deal, a UK court has heard.
The airline is "fundamentally sound" but a restructuring and fresh injection of money is crit…
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has appointed Professor Mark Adom-Asamoah as the Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor.
Prof. Adom-Asamoah, currently the senior-most Provost, had since 2016 been the Provost of the Co…
The Institute of Public Relations, Ghana (IPR) will inaugurate its 12th Executive Council on Wednesday 5th August, at a virtual ceremony.
A statement issued by Mr Charles Adjei Tetteh, Executive Secretary, IPR, which was copied to the Gha…
ARB Apex Bank managed to record a moderate increase in its profit before tax from GH¢0.91 million in 2018 to GH¢1.0 million last year, representing a growth of 10 per cent.
Although falling interest rates remained a burden on the profit…
The National Peace Council (NPC), has urged Ghanaians to "jealously guard" the peaceful credentials of the country.
"This year and last year, Ghana was ranked by the Global Peace Index as the most peaceful country in the West Africa sub…
Walt Disney Co’s live-action epic “Mulan” will skip most of the world’s movie theaters and go directly to the company’s streaming platform in September, the media giant said on Tuesday.
U.S. subscribers to Disney+ will need to pay $30 t…
Neil Young is suing Donald Trump's re-election campaign for repeatedly using his music without his permission.
The rock star says the US president breached copyright laws by playing his songs at political rallies and events.
The Cana…
Google will shut down its Play Music service in the UK in October, to focus on its newer YouTube Music app.
Google Play Music failed to attract as many subscribers as rivals such as Spotify and Apple Music, despite being pre-installed a…
Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has been appointed as health minister, about a month after the ministry was rocked by a scandal surrounding the procurement of coronavirus tests and equipment.
Mr Chimwenga is a former head…
Cocoa farmers in the country have been urged to embrace the mass cocoa spraying exercise introduced by government.
In an exclusive interview shortly after a farmers' meeting at Nsawam in the Eastern Region, Nana Kumi Abiesi, Nsawam – Ad…
As part of efforts to rid the office of overcrowding and to improve on on its service delivery, the Ahantaman District Office of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)has received an ultra-modern clients waiting shed.
The Shed whic…
The Deputy Eastern Regional Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)Mr Richard Nyarko said if the NDC wins the 2020 elections, they will cancel the teachers licensure examination.
He explained that the party did not see…
Lockdown measures enforced due to the Covid-19 pandemic brought about a surge in TV watching and online streaming, according to media watchdog Ofcom.
Its annual study into UK media habits suggested adults - many stuck indoors - spent 40…
An ex-engineer for Google's self-driving car unit has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for trade secret theft shortly before he joined Uber.
US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said Anthony Levandowski had carried out …
The New Patriotic Party-USA Women's Wing has commended President Akufo-Addo for taking personal interest in the gruesome murder of a 90-year-old woman, Akua Denteh at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality, accused of witchcraft by a local …
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