Three Iraqi civilians were killed in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a provincial police said.
Unknown gunmen riding in a vehicle shot dead three civilians in Daquq, some 40 km south of Kirkuk, the source told Xinhua on …
Four foreign tourists were killed and two others wounded in a blast in a tourist attraction in south-eastern Yemen on Sunday, the official website of the ruling party General People's Congress reported.
The four killed believed to be…
Teachers and other workers have been advised not to rely and contribute solely to the SNNIT Pension Scheme towards their retirement.
The Upper East Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mr. Paul Apan…
Mr. A. K. Bonsu, Ashanti Regional Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called for the decentralization of the Teachers Fund to make it more accessible to teachers.
This, he said, would make it easier for the…
Mr. Mahmoud Khalid, Upper West Regional Minister has undertaken a three-day familiarization tour of the region during which he interacted with Paramount chiefs and elders and spelt out his vision for the development of the region to them.
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The Dunkwa-on-Offin Municipal Police has arrested a 28-year-old Farmer, Kwaku Aquaye for defiling a 14-year-old girl in the bush last Sunday at Nyamebekyere, near Dunkwa-on-Offin.
Superintendent Samuel Anderson Buabeng, who was speaki…
More aging boomers are suffering from health problems, putting a heavy burden on the US health system, a new study available in Los Angeles on Friday showed.
Aging baby boomers, who are being hospitalized for heart attacks now than p…
The Anglican Diocese of Kumasi, on Saturday celebrated a pontifical thanksgiving Mass to mark the 10th anniversary of the consecration of the Right Reverend Daniel Yinkah-Sarfo as the third Bishop of the Diocese.
The first two Bishops we…
The new Kasoa Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Jordan Quaye has warned that his administration would not tolerate any act of indiscipline, that might lead to destruction of life and property within Kasoa or on the Ka…
Mr Elvis Acheampong, Chief Executive Officer of the Life-U-Lead Incorporated, an institution based in the United States of America (USA), has expressed concern about increasing rate of tribalism and its effects on socio-economic developmen…
Thirty-five year-old Kwasi Ankama who allegedly poisoned and killed his wife over divorce in Dunkwa-on-Offin, has been remanded into prison custody by Dunkwa-on-Offin Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Hans Kpogo.
His plea was not…
Four peacekeepers have been wounded in an ambush in the restive western Sudanese region of Darfur, the Sudantribune reported at its website on Tuesday.
The attack, which took place near Geneina, the capital city of West Darfur State,…
Turkish security forces seized 15 tons of heroin in 2008, an official report said.
The report released by Turkey's Counter-Smuggling and Organized Crimes Department of the Directorate General of Security said that 15.4 tons of heroin…
Work on the ultra-modern Teaching Hospital of the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST) would soon commence to help facilitate health care delivery in the country, Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, Vice-Chancellor of the Universi…
Ms. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Tuesday said Ghana would soon celebrate a national Arbor Day to help with the process of greening the country.
Arbor Day is used to encourage the planting and ca…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday tasked health authorities to come up with "cost-containment" measures that would lead to a speedy implementation of a universal health insurance scheme to help bridge the inequality gap in heal…
Birim Central Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme Secretariat at Akim Oda has so far registered 131,287 clients by the end of last year.
This represents 73.2 per cent of the Municipality's population of 179,349, Mr Charles Obeng …
An 18-year-old man has been arrested for posting his graffiti spree on Facebook, police in western Canada's Manitoba province said on Tuesday.
The graffiti, which featured the same tag, started to appear last summer and photographs w…
Consumers in the three Northern Regions have slammed mobile network provider MTN for the poor service it has been providing the people in the area for the past two months.
The customers complained that they had been receiving the poo…
Diarrhoeal diseases, such as cholera, are increasingly becoming a major threat throughout the world, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned on Tuesday.
In 2007 and 2008, around 60 per cent …
Bernie Madoff, the accused financial swindler and former Nasdaq chairman, could face up to 150 years in prison, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.
Defense lawyer Ira Sorkin said Madoff would plead guilty on Thursday at a federal court i…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Helena Mawusi Blay, a former employee of First Allied Savings and Loans Company, a financial firm, for failing to appear before it to answer a charge of stealing preferred against h…
Bernard Madoff, who was charged with Wall Street's biggest fraud, will plead guilty on Thursday to 11 criminal counts, his lawyer Ira Sorkin said on Tuesday.
Sorkin's statement came as the Justice Department said there was no plea ag…
One in 50 US children is homeless, according to a report released in Washington on Tuesday.
The study conducted by the National Centre on Family Homelessness estimates more than 1.5 million children, or two per cent of the total, are…
The 27-year-old German student who disrupted Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's speech at the University of Cambridge, appeared at Cambridge magistrates court on Tuesday for a pre-trial review.
Martin Jahnke, a post-graduate student at t…
United Technologies Corp., an aerospace industry giant, said on Tuesday it would reduce additional 11,600 workers as conditions in the aerospace deteriorate further.
That will take total job reductions to 18,000, the company said in …
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday laid out the details of his plan to overhaul the country's education system "from the cradle up through a career."
"We have let our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short…
Two Ukrainian citizens were killed in a Ugandan plane crash on Monday, Vasyl Kyrylych, a Spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, announced in Kiev on Tuesday.
"All the eleven people aboard, including two Ukrainian citizens, are…
Two small earthquakes rattled south-western Macedonia in as many days, but caused no casualties or damage, local media reported on Tuesday.
A light quake shook south-western Macedonia at midnight Monday, followed by a moderate one la…
The Director of National Institute of Culture (INAC) of Panama, Anel Omar Rodriguez, and two other people were shot dead on Tuesday morning in an assault when criminals robbed a car in the Panamanian capital.
The other two victims be…
Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzra, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ho West on Monday commended the media in the Volta Region for their meritorious work in the last general elections.
He observed that though the media in the region were handicap…
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) on Tuesday joined the list of more than 60 channels on Dstv to give Ghanaian subscribers access to Ghana Television (GTV) with Dstv's digital quality pictures.
GTV's service would be available on …
The Omanhene of the Oguaa Traditional Area, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, has called for the restoration of the quota system in school admissions to boost the intake of local candidates.
He said the replacement of the quota system with co…
Ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday said the late Edward Salia, NDC MP for Jirapa, distinguished himself as a statesman and deserved the honour of a state burial.
He said: "When I heard that President Mills has decided to hon…
Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye Marfo, Brong Ahafo Regional Minister at the weekend announced that the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) would launch a website to project the activities of the region to the outside world.
The Minister told pres…
An opinion leader and resident of Laterbiokorshie, Mr Nii Okai Tagoe, has expressed displeasure about the way Zoomlion workers charge illegal fees ranging from GH¢1.00, GH¢1.50, and GH¢2.00 before allowing residents to dump their refuse in…
Some commercial drivers in the Tema Metropolis on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with the level of reduction in fuel prices by the government, suggesting that it was inadequate.
The National Petroleum Authority on Monday announced…
Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that a baby girl contracted bird flu virus, which brings the number of human cases of the deadly avian influenza to 58 in the country, reported the state MENA news agency.
The girl is Hab…
Russian and US cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) started a spacewalk on Tuesday, the Mission Control Centre near Moscow said.
The ISS commander American Michael Fincke and Russian engineer Yury Lonchakov opened …
The European Commission said on Tuesday that it had been informed of a confirmed case of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu string in a wild duck shot during a hunt near Starnberg, in Bavaria, Germany.
Germany is not taking restrictive …
ActionAid Ghana and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) on Tuesday called for renewed commitment to change traditional roles assigned to men and women.
The two non-governmental organizations working to promote the concern…
Three persons were killed in an accident on Tuesday when a Man Diesel truck hit a passenger bus and fell into a trench at Pokuase in the Ga West District.
Six passengers in the bus including a pregnant woman sustained injuries and a…
Mrs Juliana Azumah Mensah, Minister of Tourism, on Wednesday, expressed concern about the lack of awareness of the potentials the tourism sector contributes to the national economy.
She therefore called on sector players to intensify…
Some 300 million sophisticated phones compatible with New Generation Mobile Networking (NGMN) comprising third generation (3G and 3.5G) and fourth generation (4G) phones will be sold every year by 2013, a report from European business inte…
A circuit court at Dormaa Ahenkro in Brong Ahafo presided by Mr Justice V. C. Senu, has slapped a 50-penalty unit (GHC 600) fine on Martin Takyi for driving carelessly and causing harm to a woman.
Takyi who pleaded guilty to both cou…
The Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Justice Jacob Boon, sitting in as an additional circuit court judge has remanded a clearing agent into prison custody for allegedly defrauding one Wilberforce Osei-Wusu of 4500 Ghana cedis under the…
The Nyinahin Magistrate Court has sentenced a 23-year old unemployed man to nine months imprisonment in hard labour for unlawful entry and stealing.
Anthony Kwadwo pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea.
Police Chief Inspecto…
A Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday remanded George Awuni, a garden boy, in custody for stealing a nanny goat valued at GH¢80 at Apowa, near Takoradi.
Awuni, who pleaded guilty, will reappear on March 19 this year.
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Prophet Eric Amponsah, General Overseer of the Hope Generation Ministry International at Oblogo, near Weija, has called on Christians to use music as an effective tool of communicating with God.
He said music played a very important …
More than 500 farmers and landlords from 12 communities whose food crops and buildings were destroyed during the construction of the 15-kilometre Nkawkaw by-pass on the Anyinam-Kumasi Highway last week-end, demonstrated against the managem…
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