France goalkeeper Fabien Barthez was given a three-month ban Friday for spitting on a Moroccan referee when Olympique Marseille played a friendly match in Casablanca in February.
"He didn't spit in his face but he certainly did spit a…
Arsenal's France international striker Thierry Henry will miss the club's next two games and faces a race against time to recover full fitness in time for the FA Cup final, manager Arsene Wenger said Friday.
Henry's groin problem has …
Juan Carlos Ferrero and Rafael Nadal set up a perfectly scripted Spanish dream final at the 850,000-euro Barcelona Open Saturday as both blasted past semi-final opponents.
The unseeded Ferrero, who has been repairing a game gone stale…
Duncan Ferguson scored his second goal in a week to salvage a point for Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday as the Toffees drew 1-1 with Birmingham City.
Everton are still in the driving seat to clinch the last Champions League space…
Chelsea's English Premiership rivals have been given some bad news concerning the London's club's Russian owner Roman Abramovich.
Forbes magazine say he made 2.2 billion dollars in the past year and is now worth 14.7 billion dollars, …
Alex Ferguson wants Roy Keane to take over when he steps down as Manchester United manager.
Ferguson insists he will be in charge for at least one more year, but believes Keane has the leadership qualities required for the Old Traffor…
US Open champion Retief Goosen shot himself into a share of the lead at the Johnnie Walker Classic golf tournament on Friday despite the distractions of camera-toting fans.
Goosen said he had been plagued by snap-happy Chinese spectat…
The 31st Annual Conference of the West Volta Presbytery of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana opens in Accra with a call on church leaders to re-package their messages and present them in a manner that would draw more people closer…
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in power since his country's independence from Britain in 1980, has reaffirmed he will retire in 2008 and stressed that he was not grooming an heir, a state-owned daily reported Friday.
"I have said…
Mr Divine Otoo, Chairman of the National Plastic Waste Management Taskforce, on Friday announced that plastic waste generated in the country would be exported to some recycling companies in China and America to help solve the plastic waste…
British Prime Minister Tony Blair hit election arch-rival Michael Howard where it hurt Friday, blasting the Conservative leader's pet policy on asylum and immigration.
Describing Howard's pledges to slap a quota on foreign workers as …
Lennart Johannson will step down as UEFA president in 2007, one year later than expected.
The 75-year-old Swede, who has headed European football's governing body since 1990, was handed an extension to his mandate at the UEFA congress…
Nana Kwame Eyiah, Tufohene of Apam has urged Ghanaians to show appreciation to hard working medical doctors in rural areas for their invaluable contributions towards the country's health delivery system.
Such moral booster could be d…
A Kumasi Circuit Court had granted a 100-million-cedi bail with one surety to be justified, to Samuel Jones Ayim, a 28-year-old trader for defrauding his colleague of 7,000 Euros.
He pleaded guilty and would re-appear on May 10.
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The Director General of Ghana Aids Commission, Professor Sakyi Amoa has said that under no circumstance should HIV/AIDS status of a person be a pre-requisite to marriage.
He therefore, urged churches and other institutions that forcib…
The leaderships of
the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the People's National Convention (PNC) have agreed to endorse the decision of the two parties to unite.
The decision followed a stage reached at the previous Nkrumaist Unity …
Ireland's largest sporting organisation, which oversees the country's traditional games voted on Saturday, to temporarily allow soccer and rugby to be played at its 80,000-seater Croke Park stadium in Dublin, a spokesman said.
The his…
Lille eased their path towards the Champions League with a 2-1 French league victory over Lens here on Saturday as fellow challengers Marseille and Monaco slipped up.
With runaway leaders Lyon hosting Paris Saint Germain on Sunday, th…
Kenyan runners are poised to make their presence felt yet again in Boston on Monday, where they will seek to extend their country's recent hegemony over the storied Boston Marathon.
Kenyan men have won the last three editions of the B…
Henrik Larsson would have been proud of Craig Bellamy's winning goal against Aberdeen, according to Celtic manager Martin O'Neill.
The on-loan Newcastle player fired in a sensational volley to clinch a 3-2 home win on Saturday after t…
Emirate Airlines, "flew" above more than a dozen companies to win the maiden G-18 Golf Championship played at the Tema Country Gold Course on Sunday.
The pair of Rob Macalski and Eric Dyrbeck produced the winner formula with a net sc…
The Meteorological Services Department, on Saturday announced that the inflow of moisture far into the country is expected to sustain the cloudy conditions over the entire country.
Few thundery-showers are expected over the Eastern, …
Roman Catholic cardinals began meeting Saturday for the 12th and last time before the secret conclave in which 115 of them will elect a successor to the late Pope John Paul II.
The cardinals were expected to wrap up debate on the stat…
The chiefs and people of Mabang in the Ahafo-Ano North District in the Ashanti Region are converting an abandoned post office building under rehabilitation into a police station.
The police station in the town has been temporarily cl…
Germany fired its ambassador to Switzerland Thursday after he publicly criticized Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer over a policy to stop printing staff obituaries for former Nazis.
A foreign ministry spokeswoman confirmed that Frank E…
The Food and Agriculture Organization on Wednesday said it has alternative programmes and facilities that would benefit Ghana's fisheries industry and move it forward.
Mr. Oloche A. Edache, Assistant Director-General and Regional Repr…
Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City, on Thursday advised students studying tourism to be innovative to make money from the industry.
He said tourism was a private sector activity and a lo…
A visiting Belgian Senator, Mr. Arnold Van Aperen has promised to assist local producers of mango, orange and pineapples to have access to Belgian and European markets due to their high quality.
"The Ghanaian fruits are of high quali…
Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to bombing the 1996 Olympics and a US abortion clinic two years later, killing a police officer and wounding a nurse.
Rudolph, 38, also pleaded guilty to bombing a gay nightclub and two other f…
Liverpool set up a mouth-watering Champions League semi-final against English Premiership rivals Chelsea after grinding out a 0-0 draw in the second leg of their quarter-final against Juventus here Wednesday.
A stalemate at the Delle …
Newly promoted Ebusua Dwarfs beat Atlantic Hall of University of Cape Coast (UCC) 2-1 in a friendly soccer match played at the Robert Mensah Sports stadium at Cape Coast, on Wednesday.
The match formed part of the activities to comm…
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has thrown an open invitation to individuals and groups to submit memoranda to the Committee appointed by the Congress to embark on constitutional reforms for the FA.
The move is to afford all Ghan…
The Ghana High Commission has donated a mamograph, equipment for breast cancer screening, to the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre.
The donation was in response to the hospital's appeal launched last year for diagnostic equipment.…
The British High Commissioner, Mr Gordon Wetherell, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Usman Nuhu Sharubutu, at his residence near the Accra Central Mosque in Accra.
A statement issued by the High C…
Italy on Tuesday adopted the European Union arrest warrant becoming the last EU country to do so following strong opposition from a governing coalition party.
The warrant aims to replace cumbersome extradition procedures by allowing E…
Scott Harrison, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) featherweight champion, has said he will revert to his usual spartan training regime ahead of the next defence of his title against Michael Brodie on June 3.
For his last fight in hi…
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has launched the Queens Baton Relay, to herald the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.
The Queens Baton Relay is a traditional event that symbolises the traditional curtain raiser to the C…
The Status Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has invited 30 players to appear before it on Thursday, April 14, for hearing.
The players are praying the Committee to grant them floating status to enable them continue wi…
Officer Cadet Mahamady Belem of Abyssinia Platoon of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) emerged winner of this year's annual Inter Platoon Junior Cadet Steeplechase competition held at the Ghana Military Academy, Teshie, Accra.
Cadet Officer…
The national handball competition enters its second week at all the centres this week after a thrilling first round last weekend.
The week would provide the Prisons Service with an opportunity to consolidate their position in the l…
The moderate wing of Indian Kashmir's main separatist alliance said Monday it will meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraff when he visits New Delhi this weekend, local media reported.
The All Party Hurriyat Conference has been push…
A forum of stakeholders was held at Wa on Monday to provide a platform to the visiting 16-member mission from the South African based African Peer Review Mission.
The forum was an opportunity to question stakeholders on a range of is…
George Appiah, a 20-year-old unemployed and Kaku Kwasi Ebra, a 15-year-old student in Cote d'Ivoire, appeared before a Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday for stealing a VCD deck.
Ebra, who is a brother-in-law to Appiah told t…
A discharge of water from a dam swept away scores of Hindu pilgrims while they were praying on the banks of the Narmada River in central India, leaving at least 53 dead, senior officials said.
The chief minister of the central state …
The three refurbished wards of the children's block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), was on Monday inaugurated at a ceremony at the hospital in Kumasi.
The project, which involved the laying of new tiles, replacement of …
Baffour Kwasi Afrifa I, the chief of Akim Peseato in the Fanteakwa District, has called on Churches and opinion leaders to assist traditional authorities in abolishing outmoded customs and traditions.
He noted that obsolete traditio…
Dozens of stamp collectors, tourists, priests, nuns and ordinary Romans queued outside a Vatican post office in St Peter's Square Tuesday as rare stamps marking the papal vacancy went on sale.
"They are not particularly valuable, may…
Bayern Munich captain Oliver Kahn claims English opposition always struggle against the 18-time German champions and is confident the club can overturn a 4-2 first leg deficit when they face Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-final at…
Filipinos are losing confidence in President Gloria Arroyo's ability to deal with a looming fiscal crisis in the Philippines, according to an independent poll published Monday.
The March 3-16 Pulse Asia poll of 1,200 adults showed onl…
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