More than 360 million people in the world have disabling hearing loss, according to new global estimates on prevalence released by the World Health Organization (WHO), for International Ear Care Day on March 3.
The WHO report which w…
The Abeka Sanitation and Motor Court on Wednesday ordered the closure of Sunset Pool and drinking bar at Lartebiokorshi, and fined the owner an amount of GHC1,800 on three counts.
The manager of the spot, Bernard Smith pleaded guilty…
Sampson Yaw Tuffour, a mason has been sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard for stealing by a circuit court at Akim Swedru.
Tuffour, 23, from Akim Ofoase, pleaded guilty. His accomplice is on the run.
Prosecuting, Pol…
A two-day roundtable discussion on implementing the National Youth Parliament (NYP) has opened in Accra with a call on the youth to prepare to take up leadership positions.
The forum, which seeks to audit the mechanism and process …
The first ever Stakeholders forum on the guidelines for the installation of Communication Towers and Masts (SFCT & M) would begin Thursday aimed at building on successful development guidelines, regulations as well as set rules for full co…
The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the European Union (EU) has provided pipe-borne water to two towns in the Tolon District to protect residents against contracting water related disease…
The Youth of Vea on Wednesday appealed to the Inspector General Of Police (IGP) and the Interior Ministry to urgently investigate the murder of one Azaare Gideon, a native of Vea and a final year student of the University of Education, Win…
Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur on Wednesday urged pupils and students to take advantage of the numerous educational facilities put in place by government to ensure that they become responsible leaders in future.
He sa…
More patients are patronizing the Tamale Teaching Hospital for the treatment and care of endoscopy making it the number one hospital in the country offering such special treatment. and care in endoscopy thus making more patients to troop f…
A delegation of the traditional chiefs, elders and queenmothers from Cape Coast on Wednesday paid a congratulatory courtesy call on Vice President Kwesi Amissah- Arthur at the Flagstaff House in Accra.
They urged him to remain focuse…
Alhaji Moro Adam, District Chief Executive of Bawku West District, said behavioral change was needed by all to address the sanitation problems bedeviling the country.
Mr Adam said policies on sanitation could only be effective if peo…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck out an application filed by a human rights lawyer seeking a declaration whether when a court discharges an accused the Police can re-arrest the person and put him before another court on the same charg…
Indian physicist Sugata Mitra has won the 1 million dollar TED prize for 2013 in recognition of his work to promote self-learning among children with no access to classrooms, it was announced Wednesday.
Mitra's educational work began in 1…
Mr Bede Ziedeng, the Upper West Regional Minister, has assured the people of the region that he will strive to run an open, transparent and accountable governance in his quest to implement the Presidents vision for the region.
He appe…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said that he has no objection to the UN using drones for surveillance in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict. "Drones are useful .. if they can help locate ADF," he said. The ADF (A…
The passage of the tourism levy regulation has offered the Ministry a good foundation to contribute to national economic development, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has stated.
"The passag…
Mr Ali Famamwy, Senior Vice President in-charge of Corporate Business for Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest software and programme developer, is to pay a day's working visit to Ghana on March 4, 2013.
The visit is at the in…
President Barack Obama's new defence secretary said Wednesday the United States must engage with its allies as a force for good in the world, despite the challenges looming in the military budget.
Chuck Hagel was sworn in to lead the P…
Dr. Ken Sagoe, the Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), has decried the increasing rate at which staff of the hospital have been looting properties of the institution especially consumables resulting in huge loss …
The Tsawoe footbridge at Bokorvikofe in the Ho- West District has claimed the lives of four pupils in the past four years.
The pupils are known to have slipped through the wooden bridge and died while they were on their way to school…
The United Nations was looking into the possibility of a peacekeeping mission to Mali, a high-ranking UN official said Wednesday at the beginning of a two-day meeting of West African heads of states in Ivory Coast.
"The United Nations …
Mr Ismail Omer, Country Director for World Food Programme, has called for the need to improve the nutritional status of people as it had a direct impact on economic performance of many countries.
He said investing in the nutritional …
Participants at a regional stakeholder consultative meeting have blamed chiefs and politicians for the massive encroachment on public lands and illegal structures in Kumasi.
They said the active involvement of these two groups was ma…
More than 360 million people in the world are suffering from hearing loss, a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated on Wednesday.
In the report prepared for International Ear Care Day on March 3, WHO said on…
A United Nations human right expert on Wednesday called for an international investigation into the death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat while undergoing interrogation in an Israeli facility.
Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporte…
The first edition of a stakeholder forum on communication towers and masts (SFCT&M 2013) would be held on Thursday at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra.
The National Communications Authority (NCA)-led initiative aims at educatin…
Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, would lead a 40-member delegation to participate in the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA.
…
The Awutu Effutu Senya branch of the National Health Insurance Authority registered 6,347 fresh members for the Scheme, and activated 4,617 NHIA ID Cards for clients whose membership have expired, all within the first five working days of …
Pope Benedict XVI spoke Wednesday about the high and lows of his near eight-year papacy, in an emotional farewell audience to a crowd in the tens of thousands on the eve of his resignation.
According to the Vatican press office, 150,00…
Three provinces in Vietnam have reported blue-ear disease in pigs while central Quang Nam province claimed bird flu, according to the department of animal health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday.
L…
A Ghanaian married couple based in America had built classroom block for the Atonsu-Dompoase M/A School in Kumasi.
The US$193,526.00 structure that was inaugurated on Wednesday, also contain library stocked with books, office, kitche…
Six foreigners abducted by pirates off Nigeria's southern coast of Bayelsa State were on Tuesday freed unhurt, local police authorities have said.
Kingsley Omire, commissioner of police in Bayelsa State, said the abductees, including…
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy on Wednesday called for continued economic reform now that the European Union is going upward after hitting the bottom in 2012.
Van Rompuy made the remarks at a joint news conference here …
Armed groups blasted Wednesday a fuel station in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus, state-run SANA news agency reported.
The report said that the attack was part of the groups' assault on vital lifelines across the c…
Death toll from the accident in Eastern Kenya has risen to 35 after 24 more patients succumbed to injuries at the hospital, local police chief said on Wednesday.
Divisional police commander Simon Birir said the death toll could still…
Six Syrians were treated at a hospital in Israel for injuries sustained in the conflict and repatriated Wednesday, the Israeli military said.
They were among seven Syrians admitted to a hospital in the northern city of Safed, where som…
At least 1,000 prominent leaders and corporate heads from across continents are expected to meet at the 2013 Global Summit of Women in Kuala Lumpur in June to network and discuss women's pivotal role in the increasingly knowledge-based wor…
Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party has launched tutorials on "national awareness" and "the Greek spirit" for children as young as six, newspapers said Wednesday.
More than 20 children had joined the first lesson at party offices in t…
Several people were killed and others injured in shooting at a timber company in Switzerland on Wednesday, police said.
The shooting at the building in Menznau near the central city of Lucerne occurred shortly after 9 am (0800 GMT), in…
Misao Okawa, a 114-year-old Japanese, was recognized Wednesday as the world's oldest woman by Guinness World Records.
Okawa, born on March 5, 1898, received a certificate from Guinness at a nursing home in the western city of Osaka les…
Tehran says "positive steps" have been made at its just-concluded nuclear talks with world powers here and some of the proposals presented by its counterparts are "more realistic."
"Some of the points raised in their response were mo…
Tehran would be given time to consider the latest proposal from six world powers aimed at ending the dispute over its nuclear programme, the grouping said Wednesday.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the so-call…
The Catholic Church's cardinals on Thursday thanked Benedict XVI for his leadership, in their last meeting with he German-born pontiff before his resignation.
"Loved and venerable successor of Peter, it is us who thank you for the example…
Pope Benedict XVI pledged on Thursday full allegiance to the man who will succeed him as the leader of the world's almost 1.2 billion Catholics.
In a farewell meeting with cardinals, he said he would pray for the Holy Spirit to assist the…
Egypt is to lodge an official complaint with France over a statue showing a famed Egyptologist standing with his foot on a pharaonic head, a news report said Thursday.
The sculpture of Jean-Francois Champollion - who in 1822 deciphered…
A team of security personnel on Thursday carried out an early morning operation to dislodge Madam Hagar Nkrumah, a notorious landlady in Takoradi, from government property .
The woman, who claimed ownership of a government bungalow …
Pope Benedict XVI planned Thursday to bid farewell to his cardinals - one of his final acts before resigning as leader of the world's almost 1.2 billion Catholics.
Benedict's papacy is to officially end at 8 pm (1900 GMT). He will move te…
South African police were caught on mobile phone footage dragging a suspect behind their vehicle who then died, the Daily Sun newspaper reported Thursday.
The footage showed police handcuffing the man, identified as Mido Macia and said…
Religious minorities in Indonesia are increasingly targeted by militant Islamists, and the government is failing to take adequate action, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
Violent attacks on religious minorities rose from 244 in 2011 t…
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