Health authorities were scrambling to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in southern Pakistan after a measles outbreak, UN and Pakistani officials said Tuesday.
Measles was suspected as the cause of 210 deaths last year in Sindh provi…
An oil leak forced an Easyjet flight from Geneva bound for Edinburgh to divert to London on New Year's Eve, the airline said Tuesday.
The diversion to Luton airport was precautionary after the leak forced the pilot to disengage one engine…
More than 60 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a stampede early Tuesday at a New Year's Eve celebration in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's largest city, state TV reported.
The victims were crushed to death when a crowd panicke…
The Turkish government has been in talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), about disarming the outlawed group, media reports said Tuesday.
This goal could not be achieved by military me…
Gunmen killed seven Pakistani aid workers, six of them women, in the restive province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday, police said.
A mini-van carrying the aid workers from a local charity was ambushed in the Sher Afzal Bande area of Swa…
The President John Dramani Mahama has been called upon to devote time and resources to revamp as well as strengthen state institutions in the coming year.
Bishop Bernard Ogyiri Asare, Founder of the Zion Praise Chapel International a…
Righteousness and Holiness are the two things Christians need to adopt in the New Year to receive the kingdom of God, Prophet Kwame Darko-Mensah, founder of the God's Disciple College Church, Oyarifa, has said.
He said as Christians,…
The Superintendent of the Adweso Circuit of the Methodist Church, Very Rev. Andrew Mbeah-Baiden, has reminded Christians that God would respond to their prayer requests in due course.
He said God never fails and often honours his pro…
Fear, stigmatisation, high patronage of herbal concoction and over-reliance on prayer centres had accounted for the delay in reporting breast cancer cases for prompt medical attention.
Due to the delay, the breasts of most patients h…
Pope Benedict XVI marked the Catholic Church's 46th World Day of Peace on Tuesday by recalling the world's conflict hotspots, from Syria to Nigeria, and by speaking out against selfishness, inequality and unregulated capitalism.
The 85…
The New York Times's Beijing correspondent, Chris Buckley, on Monday became the latest foreign journalist to be forced to leave China, after authorities declined to extend his visa.
"He and his family left China today," a colleague of Buc…
Police were Tuesday searching for an assailant who stabbed seven people during New Year's celebrations in central Belgrade.
At least three of the seven were seriously injured.
The incident took place a few minutes before midnight a…
India on Tuesday began direct cash payments to an estimated 200,000 poor people in the first phase of an ambitious plan aimed to include millions of citizens, officials said.
Direct cash transfer of subsidies is aimed at stemming corrupti…
A 4-year-old boy died and more than 200 were injured by fireworks and gunfire during New Year's Eve revelry in the Philippines, officials said Tuesday.
The boy died after being hit by a stray bullet in the back while watching fireworks ne…
The Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale, Most Reverend Philip Naameh has urged all Christians to thank God for the gift of faith and fruitfulness in 2012.
"God gave all of these for free and we need to appreciate and strive hard to be each …
Drinking bar operators and outdoor event organisers in Ho, the Volta Regional capital, are counting their losses as people deserted their programmes and trooped to churches for activities to welcome the New Year, 2013.
The churches w…
India's southern state of Tamil Nadu Tuesday announced a series of measures to address crimes against women amid protests across the country over the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi.
Chief Minister J Jayalalitha a…
Iraqi security forces arrested 18 people suspected of involvement in recent outbreaks of crime and violence in central Iraq, a police chief in the city of Kut said Tuesday.
Six of those arrested were part of a robbery gang, while the o…
Turkish soldiers killed at least 10 rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), according to media reports on Tuesday.
Weapons and ammunition were also found during the operation in the south-eastern province of Diyarbakir…
Rev Gabriel Atidoo of the Sacred Heart Cathedral on New Year day appealed to parishioners to avoid petty jealousies and count whatever happened to them in life as blessings instead of envying their neighbors.
He said such acts were c…
Reverend Nathan Mensah Nunoo, Head Pastor of the Faith Community Fellowship and Ministry at La, has asked Ghanaians to resolve to maintain peace as they enter the year 2013, to ensure development and progress.
He noted that it was by…
Ghanaians have been asked to unite and work together to ensure success in all national endeavours.
"The God of Heaven will give Ghana Success -but we need to fear God, love one another, work hard, and do way with corrupt practices to …
Christians prayed and sang in praise of Jesus Christ, whilst tons of fireworks lit the night sky amidst shouts of jubilation as Ghanaians gave spiritual and secular welcome to the New Year 2013.
Elsewhere, other citizens, mainly the…
The following is the full text of President John Dramani Mahama's New Year message broadcast on Monday.
"Good evening my fellow countrymen and women.
It is a great privilege for me to deliver this first New Year message to you as the Pre…
The General Overseer of Transformed Life Ministries (TLM), Bishop Dusan Pobee, has urged ministers of God to let their lives challenge their flocks bearing in mind that the ministry is not about the building but the people they serve.
…
The Sunyani Catholic Diocese at the weekend organised a Christmas party for children at the Fetentaa Refugee Camp at Fetentaa in the Berekum Municipality.
The more than 100 children in the Ivorian refugee camp were feted with rice, v…
The Member of Council of State, representing the Central Region, Dr Ato Essuman, has called on Ghanaians to enter the New Year with hope.
He said God would continue to bless Ghana and that "God with His mercy would bring to fruitio…
Apostle Emmanuel Achim Gyimah, Kaneshie Area Head of the Church of Pentecost, has bemoaned the double standard lifestyles that had engulfed the Christian community throughout the world.
He said most believers claimed to love Jesus Ch…
The people of Sissala/Dagaaba in the Fielmon and Buwa traditional areas of the Upper West Region, have been asked to unite and work towards progress.
Mr. Cezar Kale, the Deputy Regional Minister, who made the call, challenged …
The German government has given the green light in principle to sell 30 armoured vehicles worth about 100 million euros (132 million U.S. dollars) to Saudi Arabia, German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday.
The newspaper cited g…
The Syrian army has dealt strong "successful" blows to the armed rebels in several areas across Syria, killing hundreds of them since last week, a pro-government daily said Sunday.
"While some pro-opposition Western countries were poising…
India's nodal medical body, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), has reportedly questioned the government's motive behind its decision to shift the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim to a hospital in Singapore Thursday, where she died in …
While grief-striken and angry protests were held against gang-rape Saturday night, another girl was reportedly molested on a bus in the city.
The girl was molested by an off-duty conductor on a moving government-run bus Saturday night in …
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday voiced his "deep sorrow" at the death of a Delhi female student, who was gang raped in a moving bus earlier this month in New Delhi, the Indian capital, saying that "violence against women must …
Ms Joyce Fobbih Takyi Aboagye, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Joyful Ventures Construction Company has cautioned women against spending all their time in churches and Prayer camps in their quest to seek better life.
She said, "It is…
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday in a letter to the congress that about 50 American troops have been deployed to help the evacuation of U.S. diplomats and citizens from the Central African Republic (CAR).
Obama informed the co…
All is calm in the Alavanyo-Nkonya areas of the Volta Region after two shooting incidents on Saturday, which claimed one life.
Mr Joseph Antwi Gyawu, Hohoe Divisional Police Commander told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that it was too…
Doctors were fighting Sunday for the lives of four survivors of a fiery Moscow plane crash the day before, in which an airliner slammed through an airport perimeter fence and showered debris on passing cars.
Four people were killed whe…
At least 19 Shiite Muslims were killed when a car bomb detonated near their bus in south-western Pakistan on Sunday, a senior administration official and witnesses said.
The blast occurred in Mastung district of Balochistan province, w…
Issuing his New Year's message on Sunday, British Prime Minister David Cameron defended his administration's unpopular government spending cuts.
"This is, quite simply, a government in a hurry. And there's a reason for that. Britain is…
Two men were reported dead by Dutch police Sunday, a day after being attacked with automatic weapons in historic downtown Amsterdam.
Police said one of the men died at the scene of the crime. The second died later in hospital. Witnesse…
A Bangladeshi court on Sunday sentenced five Bangladeshi nationals to death for killing a Saudi Arabian embassy official in Dhaka earlier this year, court officials said.
Judge Mohammad Motahar Hossain handed down the verdict nine mont…
A Bangkok taxi driver on Sunday returned a bag with 3 million baht (100,000 dollars) in cash to the Brink's security company, news reports said.
Pongsin Jirakulthavornpatthe said he ran over the cash early Sunday and alerted an army-ru…
German police were hunting Sunday for three suspects after a nighttime hotel-room stabbing left two dead in downtown Frankfurt.
One man died of stab wounds in the hotel room and a second man stumbled from the room as far as the hotel …
Three suspected al-Qaeda militants were killed in an airstrike in southern Yemen, said a security official on Sunday.
The strike carried out late Saturday destroyed a car carrying the insurgents in the southern province of Bayda, the S…
Most members of Southern African Development Community (SADC) are likely to receive normal to above-normal rainfall for the period January to May next year, according to a mid-season update.
The outlooks are split into rolling thr…
The following are the major health news covered in 2012
News in January
Ghana unlikely to achieve MDG on maternal and infant mortality by 2015.
16/01/2012
Korle-Bu Hospital suspends MRI services
17/01/2012
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One person is reported dead and two others injured in two shooting incidents on Saturday in a bush between the Nkonya and Alavanyo communities in the Volta Region.
The first incident was said to have happened at around 0530 hours, wh…
The Great Commission Church International – Ghana is to elect its National Executive Council members to steer the affairs of the Church from July 2013 to July 2018.
This election is schedule to take place at the Church's next Gene…
West Mamprusi District has more than 113 classrooms without teachers at the primary level.
In addition, 83 kindergartens are without teachers, Mr. Charles .B. Midzira, Assistant Director of Finance and Administration of the Ghana Ed…
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