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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Kumasi circuit court on Friday granted a 100 million cedis' bail with two sureties each to two teenagers for allegedly gang raping 15-year-old JSS three pupil at CPC, a suburb of Kumasi.
Augustine Aboagye, 19, a trader and Osei Kwa…
UN chief Kofi Annan, on his first visit to the Middle East in four years, said he was encouraged by developments in the peace process after talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
"The International Community is determined to work…
Participants at a regional workshop on "Land Policy Reform", in Tamale have cautioned chiefs and land owners against the indiscriminate sale of land.
They contended that as a result of the rural/urban migration, chiefs easily sold la…
Prof Dominic Fobi, the Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines, has denied speculation in certain circles that the inventory exercise of state occupied lands the government is undertaking was a ploy to acquire more land from the chiefs.
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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…
Mr. Alan Kyeremanten, Minister of Trade and Industry said on Tuesday globalisation imposed serious limitations on the abilities of nations to grow, especially when "some developed nations are technologically advanced than others and the tr…
Madagascar is to receive a total of 110 million US dollars, as the contribution of the United States towards a four-year project aimed at reducing poverty by expanding the property rights for the country's citizens, expanding banking and f…
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 …
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Monaco will have reason to be feeling aggrieved after their 2-2 draw with Auxerre on Sunday, a result which left Didier Deschamps' side short of moving up to third position in the French league.
After Lyon affirmed their ambitions to…
Hundreds of well wishers clapped and chanted "Long live the pope," heartened by the sight of a seemingly alert John Paul II who blessed them from his car as he left his Roman hospital on Sunday.
With the inside light of his silver peo…
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday that Syria's pledge to pull its troops from Lebanon was "positive," but said Washington will continue to press Damascus to comply with a UN resolution calling for a full withdrawal.
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Hamas's decision to take part in the Palestinian election in July could be the beginning of a major switch that takes the Islamist group from
a resistance movement to political faction, analysts said.
Saturday's announcement that it…
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson basked in his team's passage into the FA Cup semi-finals and insisted last week's heartbreaking Champions League exit will make his side stronger.
United brushed aside Southampton 4-0 at St Mar…
Kerron Clement of Trinidad broke American great Michael Johnson's 10-year-old 400m indoor world record here Saturday, clocking 44.57sec at the NCAA US collegiate indoor athletics championships.
Clement, 19 and representing the Univers…
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Zebi Football Club, Greater Accra Second Division campaigners on Monday invited its old players as well as new players interested in joining the club to report for justifiers at the Club's training grounds at the La Town Park in Accra.
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A UN envoy is to travel to Syria on Thursday to ask Damascus for a date for the withdrawal of its troops required under a UN resolution, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday.
"I hope the envoy will be able to come back with …
The Islamic Army in Iraq has taken two Sudanese men hostage for collaborating with US forces, according to a video and statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday.
Mohammad Harun Hammad and Maher Attaya were abducted for…
Russia has more than one million street children, and one crime in four involves underage youths, Russia's chief prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov said on Wednesday.
"Officially, the number of children without supervision is more than 700,0…
A teenager on Wednesday admitted giving authorities contradictory accounts of seeing Michael Jackson sexually molest his then 13-year-old brother in the superstar's bed.
While grilling the 14-year-old brother of Jackson's accuser for …
The British government on Wednesday unveiled two stamps to commemorate the wedding next month of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and Camilla Parker Bowles.
The couple are pictured in an informal and relaxed mood on a f…
The notorious Gambino crime family, one of New York's five big "La Cosa Nostra" mafia clans, was dealt a severe blow Wednesday with the arrest of its top two acting leaders and the arrest or indictment of 30 others associated with the grou…
Unilever Ghana Limited (UGL) on Thursday presented 24 used computers valued at 48 million cedis to nine first and second cycle schools in the Tema municipality to enable the children get abreast with the computer age.
Making the pre…
A Palestinian gunman from the radical Islamic Jihad faction was killed by Israeli gunfire in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Israeli military sources said.
The Palestinian was killed as he opened fire on soldiers from within a hou…
Papa Owusu Ankoma, Minister of the Interior on Thursday said the Government would ensure that the rights of Ghanaians living abroad illegally, was respected in accordance with international human right standards.
He said his outfit h…
The Tema Regional Officer of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Mr Morgan Ayawine, has called on local unions and management of companies to re-strategise and apply achievable methods in production to ensure expansion and j…
The European Commission called on Wednesday on Russia to respect human rights and work for a political solution to the Chechen conflict, after the killing of rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov by Russian forces.
The European Union (EU)'s ex…
UN chief Kofi Annan was Thursday to deliver a global strategy for fighting terrorism on the eve of commemorations in Madrid for the train bombings a year ago that ranks as one of the worst attacks ever in Europe.
The leader of the wor…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday called on member countries of the Commonwealth to rededicate themselves to the values and goals of the club.
In a message to celebrate Commonwealth Day which falls on Monday March 14, Preside…
Dutch international defender Jaap Stam has extended his contract with former European champions AC Milan till the end of the 2007 season, the club said here Wednesday.
"I'll finish my career at Milan," said the 32-year-old Stam, who j…
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister Designate, on Tuesday proposed that 40 percent of appointments of District Chief Executives (DCEs) be reserved for women.
She made the proposal in a keynote address read for h…
Mr Yaw Barimah, the Eastern Regional Minister, has urged regional heads of public and civil services to work together to make the region the beacon to others in socio-economic development.
Addressing his first official meeting with …
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has launched the first phase of the computerisation and networking of the Town and Country Planning Department and other development control and management sections of the assembly in Kumasi.
T…
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways reported Wednesday a 2004 net profit of 4.42 billion Hong Kong dollars (567 million US dollars), more than triple the 1.3 billion dollars posted in a disastrous SARS-hit 2003.
Analysts ha…
Dr Ato Quayson, Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, at the weekend urged Ghanaian students in the Diaspora to return home and assist in national reconstruction after the completion of their academic programmes.…
The United States has promised an early answer to new European proposals for persuading Iran to renounce its suspected nuclear weapons ambitions, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday.
The official, who asked not to be …
Mr Joe Kingsley Hackman, NPP-Gomoa West, on Thursday urged the Attorney - General's Department to fast track the prosecution of criminals as soon as they were arrested to deter other robbers and social miscreants.
He also recommended…
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