NASA is close to deciding on a landing site for its Mars rover Curiosity mission by narrowing the
choices to four, media reports said Monday.
Scientists in the close-knit Mars research community get one last chance to make their case thi…
Turning to Japan where new evacuations have begun beyond the 30-kilometre exclusion zone around
the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a giant barge to store radioactive water has been sent to the damaged the facility to bolster
sta…
The Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC), is to provide the equipment and environment that would promote teaching and learning in the 21st Century.
Mr Africanus Anane, Headmaster of the school said an Electronic Interactive …
Mr John Rex A. Gadgekpo, Director of the Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL), has expressed serious concern about a recent armed attack on students of the institute and other road users along the road linking the institute’s new campus at L…
Hajia Boya Gariba, Deputy Minister of Women and Children’s Affair, has called on Muslims to redefine their strategies and responses in dealing with the many challenges that confront them.
She asked Muslims to focus on the economy and…
Dr Rabiatu Ammah-Konney, Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, has urged Muslims to desist from extravagant marriage ceremonies, which she said was the major cause of broken matrimonies.
She said divorce among Muslims ha…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Sunday confirmed that he would be in Cote d’Ivoire to witness the investiture of Ivorian President Elect Allasane Ouattara, to be held on May 21, 2011.
He therefore asked the religious community to …
The 70-year-old wife of former Egyptian Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized in Sharm el-Sheikh for a suspected heart attack Saturday, a hospital official said.
Suzanne Mubarak was told Friday she would be detained by officials for questioning …
The Red Cross said there were no immediate reports of deaths after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Costa Rica.
The shaker was felt over much of the Central American nation late Friday and knocked out cell phone service in many areas.
The …
A worker collapsed and died Saturday at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but not from radiation, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
TEPCO, the utility that runs the earthquake-crippled reactors, told The New York Times the contract …
Violence spiraled in Yemen Saturday as suspected al-Qaida fighters killed six soldiers and troops fired on protesters, the government said.
The Interior Ministry told CNN six soldiers were killed and five wounded in the town of Rada'a and…
A night raid in eastern Afghanistan has killed a child for the second time in three days, NATO said Saturday, and a second boy died during protests.
NATO apologized for the killing, which occurred before dawn Saturday in the remote Hesare…
Archaeologists say they've found 5,000-year-old rock carvings in northern Sudan depicting scenes they can't explain.
Researchers discovered rock art in 15 sites in an arid valley known as Wadi Abu Dom in the Bayuda Desert, about 18 miles …
A Canadian doctor on trial for killing his two young children described what led to the stabbings and his bungled suicide attempt.
Guy Turcotte, 39, spent most of the week on the witness stand, The (Montreal) Gazette reported. His cross-e…
The completely solar-powered Solar Impulse plane finished its first international flight, from Switzerland to Belgium, in about 13 hours, officials said.
CNET.com reported Saturday the plane, its 200-foot wingspan covered by more than 12,…
Wallace McCain, who founded the Canadian frozen food giant McCain Foods with his brother, has died of pancreatic cancer, his family says.
McCain, 81, was at his home in Toronto when he died Friday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported…
Insurgents in Afghanistan opened fire on a medical evacuation helicopter marked with the universally recognized Red Cross symbol, military officials said.
The helicopter had been called to Helmand province to evacuate a soldier injured by…
A bomb exploded aboard a bus in Pakistan's Punjab province Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring 20 others, police said.
The explosion occurred in the Chak Kamal area near Kharian, home to a large military base, the Press Tru…
The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour, grounded for last-minute repairs, will now launch Monday, barring further complications, NASA officials say.
"The system looks good, the weather looks good, and we should be in good shape for launch," Mik…
The Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC), is to provide the equipment and environment that would promote teaching and learning in the 21st Century.
Mr Africanus Anane, Headmaster of the school said an Electronic Interactive …
Mr John Rex A. Gadgekpo, Director of the Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL), has expressed serious concern about a recent armed attack on students of the institute and other road users along the road linking the institute’s new campus at L…
Hajia Boya Gariba, Deputy Minister of Women and Children’s Affair, has called on Muslims to redefine their strategies and responses in dealing with the many challenges that confront them.
She asked Muslims to focus on the economy and…
Dr Rabiatu Ammah-Konney, Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, has urged Muslims to desist from extravagant marriage ceremonies, which she said was the major cause of broken matrimonies.
She said divorce among Muslims ha…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Sunday confirmed that he would be in Cote d’Ivoire to witness the investiture of Ivorian President Elect Allasane Ouattara, to be held on May 21, 2011.
He therefore asked the religious community to …
The 70-year-old wife of former Egyptian Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized in Sharm el-Sheikh for a suspected heart attack Saturday, a hospital official said.
Suzanne Mubarak was told Friday she would be detained by officials for questioning …
The Red Cross said there were no immediate reports of deaths after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Costa Rica.
The shaker was felt over much of the Central American nation late Friday and knocked out cell phone service in many areas.
The …
A worker collapsed and died Saturday at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but not from radiation, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
TEPCO, the utility that runs the earthquake-crippled reactors, told The New York Times the contract …
Violence spiraled in Yemen Saturday as suspected al-Qaida fighters killed six soldiers and troops fired on protesters, the government said.
The Interior Ministry told CNN six soldiers were killed and five wounded in the town of Rada'a and…
A night raid in eastern Afghanistan has killed a child for the second time in three days, NATO said Saturday, and a second boy died during protests.
NATO apologized for the killing, which occurred before dawn Saturday in the remote Hesare…
Archaeologists say they've found 5,000-year-old rock carvings in northern Sudan depicting scenes they can't explain.
Researchers discovered rock art in 15 sites in an arid valley known as Wadi Abu Dom in the Bayuda Desert, about 18 miles …
A Canadian doctor on trial for killing his two young children described what led to the stabbings and his bungled suicide attempt.
Guy Turcotte, 39, spent most of the week on the witness stand, The (Montreal) Gazette reported. His cross-e…
The completely solar-powered Solar Impulse plane finished its first international flight, from Switzerland to Belgium, in about 13 hours, officials said.
CNET.com reported Saturday the plane, its 200-foot wingspan covered by more than 12,…
Wallace McCain, who founded the Canadian frozen food giant McCain Foods with his brother, has died of pancreatic cancer, his family says.
McCain, 81, was at his home in Toronto when he died Friday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported…
Insurgents in Afghanistan opened fire on a medical evacuation helicopter marked with the universally recognized Red Cross symbol, military officials said.
The helicopter had been called to Helmand province to evacuate a soldier injured by…
A bomb exploded aboard a bus in Pakistan's Punjab province Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring 20 others, police said.
The explosion occurred in the Chak Kamal area near Kharian, home to a large military base, the Press Tru…
The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour, grounded for last-minute repairs, will now launch Monday, barring further complications, NASA officials say.
"The system looks good, the weather looks good, and we should be in good shape for launch," Mik…
Government has been urged to act more robustly
to enforce laws on the protection and management of the country's forests, an international forestry expert said on Friday.
Ms Debora Van Bovenflier, a Forestry Consultant of a Netherl…
The Greater Accra Regional Directorate of
Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) on Thursday presented items to the inmates of Dworwulu Special School in Accra.
The items worth, GH¢1,000, included bags of rice, tubers…
The Northern Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana on Friday donated 100 maxi bags of maize
to support victims of the recent floods that hit the Central Gonja District.
The Rev Dr. Martin Bugri Nabor, Chairperson of the…
Kuoro Barecheh Nlowie Baninye II, Acting President of the Zini Traditional Area, has asked the Catholic Bishop of Wa, Paul Bemile, to urgently intervene in a land dispute between
the Nimoro and Fielimuo people of the Sissala West Distric…
The Exams Ethics International Ghana, at the close of a regional workshop in Ho on Thursday, has issued a 12-point communiqué appealing for collaboration among stakeholders in human
resource development in the sanitization of conduct of e…
Mr Albert Amponsah, Chief Executive Officer of Abe Farms of Oboadaka near Nsawam, has called on the
authorities of the Youth in Agriculture Programme to consider pineapple production as a good source of foreign exchange.
He made the…
The Representative of UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ghana, Dr. Iyabode Olusanmi, on Friday congratulated the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, the anti-human trafficking unit, and the Department of Social Welfare for protecting th…
Mr Mark Woyongo, the Upper East Regional Minister, on Friday reiterated government’s commitment to
developing the northern sector.
He said it was to that effect that the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority had been establishe…
Mr Stephen Okpoti Mensah, the Eastern Regional Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), on Friday said shortcomings and weakness in the legislative framework dealing with corruption to deter people fro…
The Presiding Member of the Effutu Municipal Assembly, the Very Rev. Eldad Bonney, has appealed to churches to team up with Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to fight anti-social vices that are on the ascendancy.
…
Statistics from Internal Medicine Specialists
at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), show disturbing upsurge
of cases of hypertension and diabetes in Kumasi and it…
Early initiation of antiretroviral treatment in people infected with HIV prevents them from transmitting the virus to their partners, according to findings released Thursday from a
large-scale international clinical study.
The study, kno…
U.S. is "deeply concerned" about recent violence in Yemen and strongly condemned these "troubling
actions", said U.S. State Department Mark Toner on Thursday.
"We call on the Yemeni security forces to exercise maximum restraint, refrain …
Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne Thabet would be investigated over accumulated illegal wealth, state media said Thursday.
A team of investigators from the Illicit Gains Authority went Thursday to Sharm el-Sheik…
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