Madagascan astronomers forecast the annular eclipse of the sun on Jan. 15, 2010, an official source in the capital city Antananarivo announced on Wednesday.
It is a partial eclipse, which will be visible in the Indian Ocean island co…
Foreigners visiting Myanmar have arrived at a number of the most ideal locations in the country to take up position to watch the millennium's longest solar eclipse taking place on Friday (Jan. 15).
These locations are selected as Nga…
After a sharp decline in 2009, global information technology (IT) spending is expected to rebound this year and keep growing in the years ahead, market research firm Forrester said on Tuesday.
Global IT spending, which dropped 8.9 pe…
The spread of the A/H1N1 influenza among Indians appeared to be in control after the virus reached the indigenous Yanomami group in northern Brazil, a report showed Tuesday.
Despite a rise in flu-like illnesses, neither deaths nor ne…
Dr Samuel Atindanbila, Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon, has expressed concern about the increasing rate of reported cases of stress related diseases in the country's hospitals, and called for immediate …
Togo began a three-day mourning period on Monday in memory of the two killed in an attack on the bus of the Togolese football team by Cabinda separatists in Angola.
The flags are flying at half-mast in the diplomatic quarters, school…
Government is to re-open Worawora Nurses Training College as a Midwifery Training College and this will be in addition to a planned Nurses Training College at Kete-Krachi,Mr Joseph Amenowode, Volta Regional Minister, said on Tuesday.
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South Korea's first-ever icebreaking vessel set sale for its Antarctic voyage Tuesday to test its icebreaking operations and explore candidate sites for the country 's second research base there, the government said.
The 7,487-ton ic…
A GH¢20,000 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre built for the Wamaase D/A Primary School in the Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region was inaugurated on Tuesday.
Akate Farms and Trading Company Limited in Kumasi pro…
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) on Tuesday said media reports alleging that its High Command "might be on a collision course with the Ghana Police Service over a case involving some soldiers who went to arrest some alleged kidnappers" was unt…
The Tema Regional Office of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service recorded a total of 1,020 domestic violence cases in 2009.
The Unit whose jurisdiction covers Tema Main, Ashaiman Division, Sa…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), on Tuesday, said government would take immediate steps to address national capacity gaps relating to institutional
and systemic capacities as well as human resour…
Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, Health Minister, on Tuesday said the shocking revelations at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital should be a wake-up call to administrators and managers of health facilities.
"I am ashamed to be associated with the sh…
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues have identified the first genetic variant associated with aggressive prostate cancer, proving the concept that genetic information may one day be used in combinati…
A partial solar eclipse can be observed in Nepal's sky for three hours on Friday, said B.P. Koirala Memorial Planetarium, Observatory and Science Museum Development Board on Tuesday.
The eclipse will begin at 12:24 p.m. (0639 GMT), …
An additional hour in front of the television each day increases the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease by 18 percent, the Australian Associated Press reports on Tuesday.
According to an Australian research published in the Jo…
Mr. Nick Afari-Arthur, a leading member of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) at Aburi-Nsawam constituency in the Akuapem South Municipality has urged the youth to take their academic studies seriously to become responsible leaders in futu…
The Golden Star Bogoso-Prestea Mining company has been commended for adopting community centered policies and establishing friendly relationships between staff of the company and chiefs and people within its catchment area.
This wa…
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini left on Monday for a week-long tour of Africa set to focus primarily on the immigration emergency amid Italy's growing racial unrests of these days.
In an interview published Monday on daily I…
During a short but wide- ranging press conference on Monday, United Nations Secretary- general Ban
Ki-moon said he would continue to closely follow several high-profile issues that continue to beleaguer the international community.
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As the United Nations Monday kicked off its official launch of 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity to highlight the continued devastation on the world's species, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called it a "wake-up call" to pro…
Italian authorities held an extraordinary summit Monday aimed at identifying possible Mafia connections in the outbreak of racial riots in the southern Calabrian town of Rosarno.
The unrest exploded on Thursday night after immigrants…
Algeria on Monday protested a U.S. decision to include its citizens among those subject to extra security measures in airports when they fly to the United States.
"Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci summoned U.S. ambassador Dav…
The French government shunned Monday to comment on the 20-day deadline set by al-Qaeda's North African branch to kill a French hostage, but stressed "full discretion" on the issue.
Al-Qaeda wing in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) threatened t…
NATO is encouraged by a recent poll on Afghanistan that indicates greater popularity for NATO's mission and decreased support for the Taliban, the alliance said in a statement on Monday.
The poll, commissioned by the BBC, ABC News an…
The Kenyan government admitted on Monday it was facing hurdles in deporting radical Jamaican cleric who returned to Nairobi after the airlines in Nigeria refused to fly him to Gambia, where he had been deported to.
Immigration Minist…
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon Monday cut ribbon to mark the opening of the new Temporary North Lawn Building at the UN headquarters, the working home for the world body for the next two to three years.
The inauguration marks an…
Yemeni coastguards freed on Monday a Yemeni fishing boat seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden two weeks ago, Saba news agency reported Monday.
Commandos of coastguards freed the fishermen with no human losses, said a security…
Continuing his commitment to take action to help end human trafficking, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation on Monday, declaring January 11, 2010 as Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
"Human trafficking is m…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced here Monday that his top priorities for this year will be promoting sustainable development and negotiating a legally binding pact on climate change.
The secretary-general made the announcem…
U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones will visit Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian territories, announced the White House on Monday.
"General Jones will discuss the full range of regional challenges and opportunities at t…
Nearly 4000 of the 3.2 million licensed drivers on New Zealand's roads are 90 years or over.
Of those, seven drivers were over 100 with the oldest being 104-year-old Ellen Noy, from Kaiapoi, showed figures released by the New Zealand…
The first federal trial in the United States on same-sex couples' right to marry opened Monday in a federal courtroom in San Francisco, which will decide whether the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from banning same- sex marriage.
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The Effutu Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Nii Ephraim, has said government has put in place polices that will help the youth in its "better Ghana" agenda.
He mentioned some of the policies as the National Youth Policy, National Youth …
Three prison officers and five convicts have been put before the Nsawam Magistrate Court for allegedly possessing 299 wrappers of Indian hemp.
The convicts, who inserted various quantities of the Indian hemp into their anus, mention…
Handicrafts made by Jordanian women behind bars were on display on Monday at the opening of a three- day exhibition held in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
The exhibition, organized by the country's Public Security Department and the…
Beers made in Mongolian have been selected as the best beverages in the world, announced Monday the World's Largest Beverage Competition.
These beers "Fusion" and "Borgio" won gold and silver medals respectively in the 2009-2010 Worl…
Romania's national rail freight carrier CFR Marfa decided to send 6,380 employees home beginning on March 1, General Manager Mihai Frasinoi announced on Monday.
CFR Marfa has already submitted the restructuring plan to the Territoria…
South Koreans could potentially face a nation-wide blackout as the country's power reserves may drop below "alert" levels following the record amount of power use recently, a senior government official said Tuesday.
In a letter relea…
A strike of 70 workers of the Bulgarian State Railways protesting against unpaid wages at Sofia Central Station hit train schedules Monday.
The international train to Bucharest delayed 123 minutes, several other trains were late betw…
Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday officially released giant pandas Wang Wang and Funi outside their glass enclosures at Adelaide Zoo.
Wong was on hand at Adelaide Zoo armed with a two-way radio which she gave t…
A fishing boat carrying 10 crew members, six Chinese and four Japanese, went missing and might have capsized Tuesday off the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, according to the Japanese Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard has dispa…
Cypriot doctors at a state hospital reported on Monday the case of a 34-year old woman who came back to life, after her heart had stopped for 15 minutes.
They said the woman had suffered a haemorrhagic shock during an emergency ca…
An unknown gunmen shot dead on Monday night a son of the owner of one of the most influential media groups in Cyprus.
The dead man is Antis Hadjicostis, son of Costis Hadjicostis, owner of Dias Media Group which owns a television sta…
Floods caused by heavy rains destroyed historic buildings early this month in the Brazilian city of Sao Luiz do Paraitinga, local media reported on Monday.
The city is the only one in the state of Sao Paulo to have preserved a comple…
The movie "Avatar" retained its U.S. box-office king position for the fourth consecutive weekend with another haul of 50.3 million U.S. dollars, according to the box office figures released on Monday.
"Avatar" tells the story of an e…
Mexico reported three more deaths on Monday as freezing temperatures continue to wreak havoc across Latin America.
Carlos Guzman Hernandez, a local politician in the central state of Hidalgo, was found dead of hypothermia after his c…
A cross-section of residents of Sunyani have appealed to government to focus on political stability, educational development, national security, agriculture, health and job creation to
enable the country to attain middle income status.
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The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service has called for improvement in the handling of domestic violence cases which often ended with the imprisonment of perpetrators.
Assistant Superintendent of…
Mr Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, a Minister of State, has promised market women of Zenu-Atadeka 20,000 Ghana Cedis to develop the new market.
The market, which is to cater for displaced hawkers within the municipality, would take o…
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