European Space Agency successfully shot two telecommunication satellites NSS-12 and THOR 6 aboard Ariane 5 ECA launcher at 2000 GMT Thursday from Arianespace in Kourou, French Guiana.
Ariane 5 was ignited at the South American jungle…
The Brazilian Air Force announced on Friday that the small plane which crashed in the Amazon
rainforest region on Thursday has been found with nine survivors.
The plane has been found by Indians from the Matis tribe. According to t…
Dr. Benjamin Kwesi Prah, Rector of Kumasi Polytechnic, has urged students of higher learning to develop critical minds and the capacity to appraise facts with objectivity.
This would make them deal with complex situations of the world wh…
A/H1N1 influenza vaccines licensed by regulatory authorities were safe despite some adverse events following vaccination, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
A WHO experts group has reviewed early results from the mon…
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has made a reakthrough in the battle against the deadly Hendra virus on Friday.
A treatment that shows great potential to save the lives of people who b…
A new research study released on Friday indicated the risks of lung disease are widespread in Australia but its symptoms often go ignored.
A poll of more than 800 people aged over 35 found more than a third (35 percent) experienced a…
The four-day Global Tiger Workshop held in Nepali capital Kathmandu, which concluded Friday with a 17-point recommendation, is a beginning in the right direction to save the tiger species and their habitats.
This is the first time th…
Nana John Boafo, President of the Association of Principals of Technical Institutions (APTI), has said the educational system places too much emphasis on the acquisition of certificates to the neglect of skills training.
He appealed …
Five institutions have presented cheques totalling GHC 75,000 in support of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of Brong-Ahafo Region.
The management of Ahafo project of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, (NGGL) presente…
The Aflao Police last Wednesday intercepted a Taxi cab at Denu with five pregnant goats alleged to have been stolen from Keta.
The driver, Adotevi Addovi, 32, and Edo Atikpo 35, who was also on the taxi cab have been arrested.
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Ms Akua Sena Dansua, Minister of Women and Children's Affairs, on Wednesday urged delegates attending the United Nations Climate Change conference in December, to identify gender sensitive strategies in mitigating the effects of climate ch…
Mr. Clement Kofi Humado, Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Poverty Reduction on Wednesday, stressed the need for the country to focus on the implementation of pro-poor programmes to reduce poverty.
He said the focus …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched on Tuesday widespread consultations over the first ever international guidelines on governance of tenure to land and other natural resources such as water supplies, fisheries and fore…
The Reverend Prophet Isaac Asante,General Overseer of the Mount Ararat Church International, has called on Ghanaians to stop criticizing Prophet T.B. Joshua on his comment about the victory of the Black Satellites at the just-ended World U…
Mr Okofo Boadi, Birim Central Municipal Coordinating Director, on Wednesday expressed worry about the lack of discipline among a section of Ghanaians and urged all to change for the better.
Speaking at a validation workshop for the M…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday commended Japan for allowing highly qualified professionals to serve in deprived communities in Ghana to help them overcome the development challenges confronting them.
He expressed sat…
Dr Francis K.E. Nunoo, Head of Department of Oceanography and Fisheries at the University of Ghana, has called on Ghanaians to change their negative attitude towards the environment as the country joins the global fight against climate cha…
The Dormaa Municipal Assembly in Brong-Ahafo bagged GHC 131,250.58 at the end of September, representing 48.82 percent of the 2009 internally generated revenue target of GHC 266,785.12.
During the same period, the assembly incurred a…
A 22-year old farmer at Akwakwaa in the Agona East District of the Central Region, Kwame Amoah, who killed his brother in a bush on Saturday, Oct. 24 has surrendered himself to the Mankrong-Junction Police.
A spokesman for the Mankro…
Michael Sesi, an ex-convict, has been arrested by the Hohoe police for stealing mobile phones and recharge cards in Hohoe.
Sesi broke into a mobile phone shop and stole three MTN promotional phones and two packets of recharge cards w…
Mr. Kofi Amponsah-Bediako, Head of Marketing and Public Relations, Ghana Standards Board (GTB) on Wednesday advised manufacturers and importers of tomato paste and tomato concentrates to brand their products properly in order not to confus…
Mr Kaizaro Awoye Morganu, Secretary of the Tapa Boat Owners Association, has blamed market women whose stores and stalls are being submerged by the rising floods from the Volta Lake for refusing to occupy a new market provided for them at …
Adelashi Nyatsikor 34, a Lotto Vendor, last Friday stabbed his neighbour to death and inflicted multiple knife wounds on three others who had intervened in a quarrel between him and his wife at Avoeme-Yorkoe, a suburb of Aflao.
The d…
Two Burkinabe farm labourers, at Assin Juaso in the Central Region, have been arrested by the Police in connection with the death of a -50-year- old woman, Mrs. Salamata Yeboah from Subri in the Nzema-East Municipality.
The suspects …
Greece's coast guard found alive two missing British tourists early Tuesday morning after their boat burst into flames on Monday night off the coast of Zakynthos in the western Ionian Sea.
They were sent to hospital while the boat th…
At least eight Palestinians were injured Tuesday when Israeli settlers attacked villagers harvesting olives near the West Bank city of Nablus,witnesses said.
The injured sustained slight to moderate wounds after dozens of settlers at…
A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF)destroyer collided late Tuesday with a South Korean container ship in the Kammon Straits in Fukuoka Prefecture, local media reported.
Three crew members on MSDF destroyer Kurama were sligh…
Some 160 Cambodian journalists have adopted a common code of conduct to help journalists to better perform their journalistic job, an organizer of the forum said Tuesday.
Pa Nguon Teang, director of the Cambodian Center for Independe…
An international meeting of the Global Tiger Forum being held in Kathmandu Tuesday called for setting up a new secretariat to contain the rampant poaching and trafficking of the highly endangered big cats across the South Asian countries.
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Greece called on Europe to share burden of illegal migration after eight illegal immigrants from Afghanistan including three children and five women is the final tragic toll of the accident that occurred early on Tuesday morning near the G…
Brazilian Justice Minister Tarso Genro announced Tuesday that Rio would receive a total of 131.8 million reais (75.8 million U.S.dollars) to make the city safer for the 2016 Olympic Games.
The money would be used to purchase police e…
The Peruvian government on Tuesday denied that a military helicopter, which crashed the same day in the Andean region, was connected to drug rafficking or a terrorist attack.
Peru's Defense Minister Rafael Rey said the cause of the a…
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said Wednesday they are ready to dispatch sufficient forces anytime to rescue the abducted 79-year- old Irish priest in Mindanao, southern Philippines.
MILF Spokesman Eid Kabalu said kidnapper…
Samoa has launched new campaigns in New Zealand and Australia to attract tourists back after last month's tsunami.
The Samoa Tourism Authority started a New Zealand newspaper and television campaign over the weekend and will launch a…
A Yemeni government spokesman confirmed Tuesday the arrest of five Iranian crew on board an Iranian flagged vessel laden with weapons and said they were under interrogation.
"The Iranian crew of five is being under interrogation and …
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai described attack on UN guest house in the capital city Kabul Wednesday that left six international staff members of the world body dead as a coward act and condemned it, a statement released by his office…
Militants in a surprise move penetrated a UN guesthouse in the fortified Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday morning, killing six foreign national staff of UN,a police officer said.
"The militants entered the guesthouse at 5 a.m. local ti…
Heavy gun battle between police forces and suspected suicide bombers erupted in Afghan capital Kabul early Wednesday morning, sources said.
Police forces found at least two suspected suicide bombers while searching a house in downtow…
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Sunday visited Wana, a major town in the country's tribal area of South Waziristan to meet the field commanders and troops deployed in the area.
The official APP news agency…
Ecuador confirmed on Tuesday it had bought two transport helicopters from Russia, an investment of 22 million U.S. dollars, Ecuadorian Defense Minister Javier Ponce said.
The purchase was negotiated and finished a year ago, and the p…
Nepal Army (NA) has started its largest ever
demining operation with a target of defusing within one year at least 19 major minefields that it had been planted during the decade-long conflict, The Kathmandu Post reported on Monday.
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Indonesian authorities have asked an Australian Customs ship carrying 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to move to a new port, Australian prime minister said Tuesday.
Kevin Rudd told parliament Indonesian authorities had now asked for the…
The verification regime of a new nuclear arms reduction agreement should be less rigid compared to the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1), Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Tuesday.
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Two rockets fired from unknown location slammed next to Kabul's only five-star Kabul Serena Hotel Wednesday morning.
Officials are tightlipped if there were any casualties.
Police also cordoned off the area and did not allow jo…
At least 18 people were killed and more than 100 others injured in a blast in northwest Pakistan' s city of Peshawar Wednesday, local TV channel reported.
According to the private TV GEO News, sources said a deafening blast occurred …
A total of 14,955 Mauritanian refugees in Senegal have returned since the repatriation operation began, an official source disclosed this to Xinhua on Tuesday.
The latest contingent, the 65th of the returnees, arrived on Tuesday at B…
The Austrian Council of Ministers decided on Tuesday to extend its current international peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Bosnia to the end of 2010.
After the decision, Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos noted that curren…
Singapore is hosting a multilateral exercise to guard against the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the country's Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.
Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Teo Chee Hean offi…
Macedonia will beef up its military presence in Afghanistan by sending more troops as early as the start of next year, local media reported on Tuesday.
Skopje will deploy an additional 80 troops to the NATO-led International Security…
Eight U.S. service members and one Afghan civilian were killed Tuesday in multiple IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attacks in southern Afghanistan, said a statement of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).