A series of attacks on Monday in Iraq, including bombing homes of Iraqi security members, killed a total of 10 people and wounded 37 others, the police said.
Two Iraqi Army officers were killed and two soldiers were wounded in a roadside …
Two men in the U.S. state of New Jersey who were arrested Saturday "had expressed a willingness to commit violent acts" in the United States, CNN said Sunday, citing U.S. prosecutors and a federal criminal complaint.
Mohamed Mahmoud Aless…
Algerian security forces have killed two terrorists in an ambush in the north of the country, state-run APS news agency reported Sunday.
The pair was killed overnight from Friday to Saturday in an ambush by the security forces in Tikjda d…
An Accra Circuit Court presided over by Mr C.A. Wilson, on Monday warned the four accused persons allegedly involved in the attack on the Ga Mantse Palace to be of good behaviour.
They were warned to remain calm for peace to prevail …
Hundreds of people last Sunday took up to the streets in cities around the world to show their support for operations of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the fight against global hunger.
A statement issued by the WFP …
India has been given access to David Coleman Headley, Pakistani-American LeT operative who
has confessed to his role in the Mumbai attacks, US National Security Adviser James Jones said on Saturday.
"Yes access (to Headley) has bee…
The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) has expressed shock by the decision of government and the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) to increase tariffs on water and electricity.
A statement signed Mr Kwesi Adu, Convener of CJA …
Fishmongers at the La, who sell outside the market under sunshine, have expressed gratitude to the Member of Parliament for the area for showing concern about their plights and providing them with canopies.
The canopies valued at GHï…
The Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), has kicked against attempts to offload them unto the Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) pay system.
"Even though we are not opposed to Government's efforts to …
The Central Region Canoe Owners and Fishermen on Monday warned politicians to stop politicizing issues that concern them.
They said politicians should leave them in peace to enable them pursue their interest to facilitate the growth …
Ghana's Forest Plantation Development Project is expected to reduce the country's forest degradation by 65,000 hectares per annum.
It is also expected to mitigate the effects of climate change on the country.
Mr Ford Kamel, Dep…
Twenty-six years after the world's worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court on Monday convicted all the eight accused including former Union Carbide India Chairman Keshub Mahindra in the Bhopal Gas tra…
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) under its Teachers Fund (TF) has inaugurated a GH�5.8 million ultra modern hostel facility on the campus of the University of Ghana (UG), Legon.
The 1,000-bed facility, which is cur…
The Kwahu West Municipal Assembly has sponsored
20 youth in the municipality to undertake training in decoration at a private cakes and decoration school at Nkawkaw.
The five-day training was sponsored in collaboration with the Bus…
Turkey and Russia signed a nuclear cooperation deal here on Tuesday, foreseeing information and know- how exchanges on licensing of nuclear facilities and activities.
Under the agreement, the Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK) and the Ru…
Australian Government has cancelled the registration of an international college in Adelaide, a move that could impact hundreds of Indian students enrolled in the institution.
The Adelaide Pacific International College was
offering b…
The US on Tuesday rejected taking any action against the Union Carbide company for the world's worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead and hoped the Indian court verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case would bring "c…
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (MDMK) founder Vaiko and leaders of Communist Party of India (CPI) and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) were detained Tuesday when they attempted to stage demonstrations at different places here …
In an encouraging step, Kerala government is mulling a special assistance scheme for the education of children of jail inmates.
The new scheme was among the various welfare measures initiated by the government for the prisoners' fam…
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Tehran will not talk over its nuclear work if new sanctions against Tehran are adopted, the local satellite Press TV reported.
"If the U.S. and its allies think they could hold the st…
US-based Union Carbide Monday maintained that it was not subject to the jurisdiction of the Bhopal court that gave its verdict in the 1984 gas disaster
case, insisting that none of its officials were involved in operation of the plant.
…
Dubbing the Bhopal gas verdict as an example of "justice buried", Indian Law Minister M Veerappa
Moily Monday said there is need for fast-tracking such cases and ensuring proper investigation.
"This is one such case where justice i…
In the apocalyptic moments on the cold wintry night of December 2-3,1984, people simply started
dying in the most hideous ways after a toxic gas leak.
Some vomited uncontrollably, went into convulsions and fell dead.
Others …
"Surely justice has been done." This was how the Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari responded to queries by newsmen when asked whether justice has been done in the Bhopal Gas disaster case against the backdrop of criticism by activis…
With the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict coming 26 years after the industrial disaster, the Indian political class Monday unitedly expressed
dissatisfaction over it, dubbing it as a case of "too little, too late".
"This is one such case…
The international human rights group Amnesty International Monday said the court's verdict on the Bhopal gas tragedy is "too little, too late".
"These are historic convictions, but it is too little, too late. Twenty-five years is an…
Malik Rab Nawaz Noon, the senior lawyer heading the Pakistan government's prosecution team in the trial of seven suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has died of a heart attack.
Noon, who was hired as the special public prosecu…
India's CBI, which came under attack from civil rights groups and political parties over its probe into the Bhopal gas tragedy, Monday said it had made "painstaking efforts" in its investigation and pointed out that the charges against the…
Refuting media reports that the Headley episode had hijacked last week's Indo-US Strategic Dialogue, a top American official has said that the issue "did not even come up" during the discussion between the two countries.
"Let me…
The Keta Municipal Assembly is to extend power to
farms to enable farmers to use electricity to power tube-well for irrigation of their vegetable farms in the municipal area.
This was prompted by interest shown by some organization…
Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has challenged workers to do away with all negative acts that tend to hinder productivity.
She indicated that for the President to realize his better Ghana Agenda, it…
Mr Mike Hammah, the Minister of Transport, has donated 650 dual desks, 140 teachers' tables and chairs worth 30,000.00 Ghana cedis to the Municipal Education Directorate for distribution to schools in the Municipality.
Mr Hammah, the …
Climate Hero, Chinese photographer Luo Hong, announced Saturday the name of one of two baby gorillas in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day.
The names were chosen by online votes and Luo announced the winning selection of Wakawaka, which…
Airtel Connects with Africa – Completes the largest ever cross-border deal in emerging markets
Enters the league of five largest mobile operators in the world Airtel brand goes truly global with a footprint covering 1.8 billion peopl…
Mrs. Lordina Mahama, wife of Ghana's Vice President, at the weekend appealed to health personnel to show love to patients who attend the hospitals for treatment.
The Second Lady made the appeal when she presented quantities of assor…
A seven-year old boy got drowned in River Pomasu at Atronie in the Sunyani Municipality, in the early hours of Sunday.
Superintendent Charles Botwe, Sunyani Municipal Police Commander, who confirmed the incident to Ghana News Agency …
Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a Peruvian woman, police sources said Monday.
The Peruvian newspaper La Republica and local television station America Noticias reported van der Sloot allegedly told author…
A combined team of military personnel and forestry officials have destroyed about 1,000 hectares of cocoa and other farm produce that were illegally cultivated in the Krokosua Forest Reserve at Juabeso in the Western Region.
The oper…
Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has demolished over 360 unauthorised structures on waterways as efforts to reduce floods in the metropolis.
Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, who said this on Tuesday, attrib…
The Department of Bio-Chemistry and Bio-Technology of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is to begin a programme in human nutrition and dietetics to train more professionals in these areas.
Professor Ab…
Privately funded Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Friday afternoon following an initial pad abort because an engine parameter fell out of limits.
The Falcon 9 is carrying a mock-up of the company's spacecraft,…
The 21st Century would be distinct if the contemporary Christian youth are to combine efforts to stem social evils and be truthful witnesses of Christ Jesus.
Mrs. Grace Aboagye-Mensah, wife of the immediate past Presiding Bishop of t…
Mr Kojo Yankah, Founder and President of the African University College of Communication, at the weekend opened an arts exhibition aimed at promoting African arts and culture in Accra.
The exhibition on the theme: "Adinkra-Mother of a…
Government was on Saturday called upon not to expose the country's entire oil block for licensing, until proper oil laws and policies were put in place.
Mr George Awudi, Programmes Co-ordinator of Friends Of The Earth (FOE), an NGO on en…
Former employees of Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) who petitioned Parliament on the issue of their entitlements have appealed to the Speaker to come out with the final decision of the House on the matter.
In a letter to th…
Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Deputy Minister of Local
Government and Rural Development on Sunday reiterated government's commitment to increase national food production to sustain the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).
Mr Ankrah sai…
The Suhum District Magistrate Court on Friday convicted a 36-year-old corn- miller, James Amuzu, to a fine of GHc 240 or in default, six months imprisonment in hard labour for committing environmental offence.
Amuzu was charged with …
Low cost live webcast of polling centres on the internet, used successfully for the first time in India's north-eastern state Arunachal Pradesh during the last parliamentary and assembly elections, could be replicated at other places where…
A wild elephant that fell into a 20-foot-deep well at a village near here was rescued unharmed and let back into forest in the wee hours today after 22 hours of hectic efforts at Palakkad district in south Indian state Kerala .
In a joint…
Kerala Wildlife Department is planning to launch a payment system for various ecosystem services to attract common people to environment conservation missions.
As per the project, anyone who promotes planting and maintaining of tree…