President John Atta Mills has said inadequate budgetary allocation for children’s programmes affected their well-being and opportunities.
He said there was the need to budget well, plan, invest and train and groom them to take up le…
The number of Internet users in China is estimated to have exceeded 450 million this year as more people log onto the Web, government officials said Friday.
As of the end of November, 450 million people used the Internet, up 20.3 perce…
Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key news service, has been granted a license to launch an all-news cable television channel, the nation's broadcasting regulator said Friday, announcing a list of winners of new general programming and new…
South Korea's defense chief ordered the country's military on Friday to maintain combat preparedness against another expected provocation from North Korea amid high tensions following the North's island attack last month.
"The level of…
South Korea's National Police Agency (NPA) said Friday that it will set up task forces to deal with drunk people who are caught obstructing the public duty of police officers.
The task forces will be run by at least two officers in pol…
Yonhap News Agency aims to leap forward from South Korea's leading news wire service to a major multimedia news provider in Asia and beyond as it won the rights Friday to get into the TV news business.
A Yonhap-led consortium became th…
Police requested a warrant on Friday to arrest a bakery franchise shop owner who confessed to posting a faked photo of a loaf of bread with a dead rat inside to taint his rival shop's image before the Christmas season.
The 35-year-old …
North Korea stepped up its blustery rhetoric against South Korea on Friday, likening the South's point man on Pyongyang to a delusional literary character and warning him of "dreadful punishment."
The depiction of Unification Minister …
Baafour Asare Panin II, Chief of Amanase in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District in the Eastern Region, has stressed the need for Ghana to promote traditional music and art to facilitate national development.
Speaking to the Ghana News …
The Most Rev Gabriel Mantey, Bishop of the Jasikan Diocese of the Catholic Church, has appealed to Ghanaians to be candid and honest in their dealings with each other.
He said the fact that people would be unhappy with being told the …
The Rt Rev Francis Amenu, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, on Friday said the nation must remain focused as it went into the production of oil and gas in 2011.
Rt. Rev. Amenu therefore app…
Mr Alex Tetteh-Enyo, Minister of Education on Friday said plans were far advanced to relocate O’Reilly Senior High School from Adabraka to Nungua by July next year.
He said the Ministry would discuss with the school authorities for a…
While Scotland is taking the lead in green energy technology, education can help citizens realize the benefits of lower emissions, the government said.
Edinburgh said it was advancing a public engagement strategy that would focus on ways …
European salt imports are soaring as icy roads after recent heavy snowfalls continue to pose hazards for motorists and pedestrians.
Chile, one of the largest suppliers, said it was struggling to keep up with demand for salt used for de-ic…
Argentina is heading for a sweltering New Year's Eve as a heat wave sweeps through the Latin American country, raising concerns about electricity and water shortages and future yield of key cash crops.
Heavy draws on the national power gr…
A man who donated a kidney in 1954 in the world's first human organ transplant that resulted in long-term survival has died in Maine, his family said.
Ronald Herrick, 79, died this week in Augusta, Maine, in a rehabilitation center where …
Huge ancient sea scorpions, long characterized as terrors of the sea, may actually have been timid scavengers or even vegetarians, U.S. scientists say.
Sea scorpions, known as pterygotid eurypterids, were arthropods, like insects and crab…
A simple trap resembling a trash can that lures pregnant mosquitoes could help stop the spread of dengue fever, U.S. researchers say.
Scientists at Tulane University say the trap, a gallon-size bucket, is baited with a mixture of chemical…
U.S. researchers say they've developed a radiation detecting and measuring device that promises faster and cheaper cleanup of radioactively contaminated sites.
Scientists at Oregon State University say hundreds of millions of dollars are …
NASA says it is considering merging its space operations and human spaceflight mission directorates to better reach its manned spaceflight goals.
The heads of NASA's Exploration Systems and Space Operations directorates said they had been…
Scottish researchers say reconstructing the brains of extinct birds could provide clues to when they evolved into creatures of flight.
Scientists say overwhelming evidence suggests birds evolved from dinosaurs around 150 million years ago…
A study of one of nature's most primitive immune systems might lead to new, more effective antibiotics, a U.S. researcher says.
Thomas Wood, professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University, is studying how bacteria have develope…
An influx of invasive species can stop the usual natural process of new species formation and can trigger mass extinction events, a U.S. researcher says.
Alycia Stigall, a scientist at Ohio University, has been studying a collapse of Eart…
NASA says strong support from the White House and Congress will allow it to plan extensive Earth science programs with 16 major missions between 2011 and 2021.
In contrast to late 2009 when NASA's Earth Science Division faced constrained …
A risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity, addiction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say.
The researchers say the association between a family history of alcoholism and obesity…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings about drinks sold as supplements for sexual enhancement that could dangerously lower blood pressure.
The FDA says tests indicate the products, Rock Hard Extreme and Passion Coffee,…
Massachusetts officials have announced a plan to reduce greenhouse gases emitted in the state by 25 percent below 1990 levels during the next decade.
The Wednesday announcement of the planned reduction in emissions by cars, homes and busi…
District Assembly election results so far released in the Ho Municipal Area by the Electoral Commission saw three women winning seats in the next Assembly.
Madam Salomey Afua Zavu won the Tsibu-Dafor seat with 166 votes beating Mr Law…
The Akim Osino Presbyterian Church, has initiated a number of projects to help support its development activities in the area.
The projects include the construction of a three-room mission house for the catechist of the church, which…
Ghana Navy boats arrested a number of canoes engaged in illegal fishing along the coastline between December 26 and 30, according to a statement issued in Accra on Friday by the Ghana Armed Forces.
The statement signed by Lieutenant …
A farmer and a mason are on trial at the Akim Oda Magistrates Court, for allegedly stealing nine bags of cocoa estimated at GH¢1,800.00, belonging to the Produce Buying Company (PBC).
Kojo Ayensu, the farmer pleaded guilty and was…
A health walk on new year’s eve in Ho under the auspices of “No Tribe Foundation” (NTF), a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), attracted the political representatives of the people in the Municipality.
Mr Isaac Kodobisah, Muni…
Contingents from all the security services in Ho on Friday marched through the principal streets of Ho to demonstrate camaraderie among them throughout the closing year.
The groups include the Ghana Armed Forces, Ghana Police Service…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday donated a set of furniture worth GH¢14,000 to the Ga Traditional Council (GTC).
Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, Chief Executive Officer of AMA, said it was the responsibility of the Assembly…
There was marginal reduction in motor accidents in the Asante-Mampong Municipality during the year, according to statistics provided by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Edward Oduro-Kwateng, Divisional Commander.
The total numbe…
The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service on Friday expressed appreciation to the media, stakeholders and partners for their support.
In a statement it said “we express appreciation to the med…
Voting ended in the remaining 23 Electoral Areas in the Upper West Region that could not exercise their franchise in the District Level Elections scheduled for December 28.
Investigations by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) revealed that n…
A 40-year-old Ghanaian, Dominic Owusu-Ansah, has been jailed for four years in the UK following the discovery of a forgery factory in Milton Keynes, the British High Commission said in a statement issued in Accra on Thursday.
It sai…
A San Antonio police helicopter lost power and had to land on a busy highway, the police chief said.
The pilot and an observer aboard the chopper were not seriously injured in the Thursday evening incident, Chief William McManus told the …
A New York man whose family is in the fireworks business was charged with assault for firing on his grandson during an argument about noise, police said.
Police said Christopher Giresi was hospitalized Thursday after being struck by shotg…
The Hard Rock hotel and casino in Las Vegas has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a variety of claims involving sex and drugs, officials said.
Nevada's Gaming Control Board, which filed a complaint against the hotel, said despite warnings …
A Texas surgeon says he is suing Houston's Strake Jesuit College Preparatory for the return of donations he made to the school, which refused to admit his son.
Michael Bardwil told ABCNews.com he was promised his son, Travis, would be acc…
An Illinois couple said their 12-year-old daughter was shocked to find the tablet PC she received for Christmas was pre-loaded with pornographic applications.
Jay Hardin of Marion said he and his wife bought a pair of Coby Kyros pads, tab…
A North Carolina county official, faced with criticism that has spread nationwide, says he is standing by his denunciation of gay people as "sexual predators."
"People are entitled to their opinion and that includes me," Mecklenburg Count…
The New York murder trial of former mob boss Vincent Basciano will begin on March 2 with no more delays, a judge has ruled.
"This case is over 5 years old," U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said Thursday. "… No further requests to po…
Residents in Rockhampton, in Queensland, will be forced to evacuate if they don't move voluntarily out of the flood-affected region, Australian officials said.
Officials said up to 4,000 parcels in the city could be flooded by Tuesday whe…
A strike was called across Pakistan Friday to protest against possible changes to the country's blasphemy laws, media reports said.
Public transport was at a standstill in Karachi, where demonstrators blocked traffic as part of the indust…
A Florida woman whose resolution for 2011 was to look good died after undergoing liposuction to remove fat from her waist, her husband said.
Osvaldo Vargas said his wife, Lidvian Zelaya, went to Strax Rejuvenation Center in Lauderhill to …
The daughter of an Arizona county supervisor has been accused of molesting the same boy her mother was accused of abusing, police said.
Court documents indicate Rachel Katherine Brock, 21, the daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton…
An editorial in a U.S. journal argues that patients should have notice that their physician may be sleep-deprived.
First author Dr. Michael Nurok, an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at Hospital for Special Surgery, says in a…