Nigerian Catholics in this mainly-Muslim northern city were deeply moved by Pope John Paul II's funeral on Friday, but outraged that a power-cut prevented them for seeing the end of the ceremony.
"The funeral is the most historic even…
Roman Catholic cardinals convened on Saturday to discuss further details of the transition until a successor is named to Pope John Paul II, and declined afterwards to comment on their deliberations.
A South African cardinal, Wilfrid F…
The Vatican is to issue a set of stamps that will be usable only until the election of a new pope, a period that could be as little as 10 days, it announced Saturday.
The city-state's philately and minting office will issue the set of…
Michael Jackson's defense against child sex charges took a fresh blow Tuesday when his former maid told how she caught him in the shower with an Australian boy.
The woman, whose son tearfully told jurors that he was groped three times…
With the UN Security Council deadlocked over key issues in Sudan, the United States on Tuesday announced it would put forward three separate UN resolutions to tackle the Darfur crisis.
After weeks of stalemate on potential war crimes …
Japan has welcomed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's resolve for the world body to adopt sweeping reforms but insisted that an expansion of the Security Council bring new permanent members such as Tokyo.
Annan, presenting a report Mon…
Southampton manager Harry Redknapp said Monday he planned to hold talks with Sir Clive Woodward following the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand which finishes in July.
Woodward, who guided England to the Rugby World Cup in 2…
World number one Roger Federer and women's number two Amelie Mauresmo of France were named top seeds here Monday for the WTA and ATP Masters Series tournament that begins here Wednesday.
But the main rivals on both the men's and women…
Roger Federer successfully defended his Indian Wells ATP Masters Series title, defeating Lleyton Hewitt 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 in Sunday's final to claim his 26th career singles crown.
The world number one Federer is undefeated in his past 17 …
Italian league table after Sunday's matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):
AC Milan 29 20 6 3 49 17 66
Juventus 29 20 6 3 47 16 66
Inter Milan …
Nana Asamoah Boamah, a sports analyst has called on the management and supporters of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club and Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football club to do away with the rancour and perceived enmity between them and rather promote …
Insurgents of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) over the weekend chopped off lips, ears and breasts of seven women in northern Uganda's Kitgum district, a local leader and the official newspaper reported Monday.
The incident occurred n…
Senior allies of French President Jacques Chirac are to appear in court on Monday in a corruption case examining allegations that kickbacks were paid for public works contracts to finance political parties.
A total of 47 people have b…
Zambia's Vice President Lupando Mwape is threatening to quit his party over alleged acts of corruption and bribery to win votes ahead of the ruling party's convention, state radio said on Monday.
Mwape said senior figures within the r…
Dizengoff Ghana Limited, dealers in agro-chemicals and Motorola Services is diversifying into aquaculture and its appropriate technology transfer to make that branch in agriculture viable and attractive to farmers in the country.
Mr …
A Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday convicted Egya Mensah, a 20-year-old auto electrician for being on the premises of the complainant, Mr Kwesi Annan, a fish farmer at Effiakuma number one, a suburb of Takoradi for unlawful pu…
Miss Elizabeth Ohene, Minister of State, Ministry of Education and Sports at the weekend deplored the lack of interest in school sports by students culminating in the downward trend of sport countrywide.
She expressed regret that sports …
The general public is reminded that Friday, March 25 (Good Friday) and Monday, March 28 (Easter Monday) are statutory public holidays.
A statement signed by Papa Owusu-Ankomah, the Minister of the Interior, said people should observe…
An armed and dangerous mental patient, previously found guilty of murder and rape, escaped from a psychiatric institution in the southern Swedish town of Vaexjoe on Monday, police said.
"At 9:50 am (0850 GMT) today we received word th…
A sentence of flogging and imprisonment imposed by a court on a Saudi academic has been quashed by the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Hamza al-Muzaini, a lecturer in lin…
The weather will be cloudy over southern Ghana this morning becoming sunny later in the afternoon with thunderstorms or rain showers over high grounds but spreading out to affect many more southern stations tonight.
Northern Ghan…
The controversy over a heavily brain-damaged Florida woman, who has been kept on life support over the past 15 years, took a dramatic turn Saturday when congressional leaders invoked emergency powers to pass a bill they hope will result in…
The Koforidua District branch of the Women's Wing of the Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints on Saturday presented assorted items estimated at 20 million cedis to the New Tafo Government Hospital as part of activities marking the 163rd birthd…
he Eastern Regional Director of Education, Mrs Ewura-Abena Ahwoi, has attributed the current examination malpractices that had rocked schools of late to students' tendency to adopt the dishonest character traits of the folklore hero, 'Kwak…
The Christian community in Kumasi observed Palm Sunday with the jubilant mood reminiscent of the tumultuous cry of victory that greeted Jesus when he triumphantly entered Jerusalem.
The waving of palm branches, woven into neat braids…
Following are the standings after
English premier league played on Saturday (tabulated under games
played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, against, points):
1. Chelsea 30 24 5 1 58 10 77
2. Manchester United …
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud issued a new appeal for national dialogue on Saturday, hours after a bomb blast in a Beirut suburb sparked fears of a return to sectarian violence.
Eleven people were wounded shortly after midnight when…
The Ugandan army said on Sunday that it had killed 10 fighters of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in an ambush and battles in northern Gulu district over the weekend.
"Ten LRA fighters have been put out of action between yester…
Mr Alfred Sallia Fawundu, UN Resident Co-ordinator and former UNDP Resident Representative in Guinea Bissau, Benin and Ghana, said governance should involve leadership at all levels and not relegated to politicians alone, to ensure shared …
Parliament on Friday passed the appropriation bill authorising government to spend 34.618 trillion cedis.
The Minority joined forces with the Majority to pass this bill that, for the first time, authorises the Minister of Finance to w…
US President George W. Bush on Friday called on his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, to help defend his embattled plan to partly privatise the government-run retirement programme.
During a speech here on the issue, Bush brought…
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the mediator in the conflict in the Cote d'ivoire
has called all sides to an urgent meeting in Pretoria, "to take the peace process forward," his spokesman confirmed Friday.
An Ivorian opposition…
The patriarch of the Maronite church, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, on Friday called for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia to disarm along with Syria's promised withdrawal from the country.
Sfeir, who has become a leading figure in the Lebanese…
World oil prices rose slightly on Friday, a day after surging to fresh record high points nearing 58 dollars in New York amid robust global demand.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, rose 15 cents to 56…
Japan on Saturday refused to say when it would buy US beef again after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a personal appeal for the former top market to resume imports stopped over mad cow disease fears.
Japanese Foreign Ministe…
The Twifo Praso Magistrate Court has imposed a total fine of 2.6 million cedis on four drivers for various traffic offences.
Eric Nuamah, John Willie pleaded guilty for causing road obstruction and Henry Tandoh and William Kenu for …
Belgium coach Aime Anthuenis announced the following 20-player squad Friday for the World Cup qualifier against Bosnia here on March 26:
Belgium squad
Goalkeepers: Silvio Proto (La Louviere), Frederic Herpoel (Ghent)
De…
A Milan derby and an emotional clash between old European rivals Liverpool and Juventus marked the draw for the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Friday.
In the two other quarters, runaway English Premiership leaders Chelsea t…
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is considering a boycott of next week's Arab summit in Algiers and the hosts are leading efforts to persuade him to change his mind, Arab diplomats said Friday.
"President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is hoping to…
Arab leaders were preparing for their summit next week in Algeria with a wind of democracy bringing hesistant change to some of their countries, spurred by internal and external pressure.
A year after grudgingly pledging to push ahead…
South Korea said Friday it would tighten its hold over disputed islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) as the Japanese foreign minister said frayed diplomatic relations were keeping Tokyo from ending the row over Japan's claim to the remote…
Many of the world's greatest thinkers will gather in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan in May for a conference of Nobel laureates, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel announced Thursday.
Between 35 an…
Russia said Friday that it favoured the resumption of six-nation talks over North Korea's nuclear programme as soon as possible.
"We are in favour of resuming the six-sided negotiations as soon as possible and finding solutions that …
The Kasoa Police in the Central Region have arrested an alleged notorious armed robber, a member of a gang said to be operating at Nima and Madina areas in Accra.
Ibrahim Mohammed, Alias Sumila and Babylon, a 23-year-old motorbike me…
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ghana has appealed to the Ministry of Education and Sports to provide adequate infrastructure for to less endowed schools in rural areas to absorb Junior Secondary Sc…
A core reactor at Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant will be installed Friday, marking a major milestone towards completion of the project, state-run Taiwan Power (Taipower) said Tuesday.
If weather permits, the pressur…
Orphanage Africa (OA), an NGO in collaboration with the French Navy have supplied a new water storage tank, valued at 20 million cedis to the Osu Children's Home in Accra.
The 3200-litre capacity storage tank, which took three days …
Up to 5,000 terrified villagers fled their homes in northeast Kenya on Tuesday after militiamen massacred 22 members of a rival clan, many of them women and children, in a pre-dawn raid, officials said.
The villagers began to flee sho…
The chief of Awutu Nfaadwene, near Awutu Bontrase in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District, Nana Kwadwo Banafo I, on Sunday commended the Kufuor administration for rehabilitating the Awutu Bontrase-Nfaadwene-Obuase feeder road.
According …
Investment analysts on Monday predicted that prices of registered stocks traded on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) would continue to decline this year but said there was no cause for alarm because the phenomena was the result of market forc…
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