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 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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Negotiations on the revision of the Cotonou Agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries ended in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday with an agreement to improve political dialogue on human rights, democratic principle…
Peter Anno, a 23- year old Farmer, has been remanded into prison custody by the Techiman Circuit Court for defrauding one Mr Kwadwo Ameyaw of 6.3 million cedis.
Anno pleaded not guilty to two counts of intent to fraud and defrauding …
The Accra City Campus (ACC) of the University of Ghana on Friday celebrated its first Students' Representative Council (SRC) anniversary week with the launch of a news magazine that would serve as a mouthpiece for students.
The 24-page…
Mr. Charles Kallah, Brong-Ahafo Regional Secretary of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has urged teachers to live above reproach so that the Association would have the moral courage to defend them and fight for improvement in…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) is committed to the welfare and safe environment of communities of its operations, Ms Abla Fiadjoe, Manager of Community Relations of the Authority, has stated.
She gave the assurance at Yeji, capital …
Mr. Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister of Communications, attending the second Preparatory Meeting (PrepCom) of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland, has presented Africa's decisions arrived at during the just…
Two men killed four children and seriously wounded at least eight others Sunday at an indoor skating rink in China's northwest region of Xinjiang, before one of them committed suicide, state media said.
The two unidentified men rushed…
Judah I Music Productions and Promotions, would on Sunday March 6, stage a free charity dance at the Naa Seidu Bomi Park at Wa to support orphanages and other institutions and destitutes in the Upper West Region.
Ras Edorh Anani Amewn…
Nothing appears to be going right for six-time German champions Borussia Dortmund at the moment with acute financial problems off the pitch mirrored on the playing field.
It has certainly been a week to forget for the 1997 Champions L…
US President George W. Bush urged Russia on Monday to "renew a commitment to democracy and the rule of law" and said Europe and the United States should make such reforms central to relations with
Moscow.
Days before he was due to m…
The main benchmark of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) slumped again in trading on Monday on a huge loss by Unilever.
The GSE All-Share Index lost 44.51 points at 6,795.47 points from Friday's close of 6,839.98.98 points.
Change…
Australian media group John Fairfax Holdings voiced optimism Monday about boosting its earnings over the coming six months after posting a strong 26 percent jump in net profit for the half-year to December 31.
Outgoing chief executive…
A Tarkwa Circuit court, presided over by Mr. John Aject Nasam on Friday jailed Mr. Ellis Anane, 58, a businessman based at Tarkwa, 20 years for defiling a 14-year old girl.
Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Alex Asamoah of Tarkwa poli…
World Vision Australia (WVA), an International Non-governmental Organisation, has made a donation of medical supplies worth 100 million cedis to the Atua Government Hospital in the Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region.
The item…
Tainted referee Robert Hoyzer has fuelled the escalating German match-fixing scandal by claiming that for two years now German football clubs have been inviting referees into brothels prior to matches.
According to Spiegel magazine Ho…
Wayne Rooney's return to Everton produced the predicted hostile reception but for once the Manchester United star was overshadowed by team-mate Ronaldo who made the first and scored the second to book his side's place in the FA Cup quarter…
Real Madrid's build-up to their mouth-watering Champions League clash next week against Juventus suffered a morale-shattering setback on Saturday when they went down to a 2-0 Spanish League home defeat to Athletic Bilbao.
Madrid start…
Mr. Ambrose Dery, the Upper West Regional Minister has urged the media not to hesitate in their duties to expose wrongdoings in all the spheres of development in the region.
He said people were free to criticize, "but those who critici…
Egyptian doctors have successfully operated on a two-headed baby, removing the second head and neck to leave a normal baby girl after the successful operation, surgeons said on Saturday.
"The operation lasted 15 hours and it was a com…
The Tema Regional Command on Friday night arrested a notorious jailbird, Emmanuel Sackey Tetteh alias Mpata for terrorising residents of Accra and Tema.
Soon after released from the prison, where he served for eight years, Tetteh, an art…
Kweku Quaye alias Togbe, who allegedly led a gang of armed robbers to steal an amount of 18 million cedis at the residence of the Anglican priest at Eyifua a suburb of Cape Coast three years ago, was on Tuesday committed by a magistrates c…
France's media put Finance and Economics Minister Herve Gaymard in their sights on Wednesday after a report revealed he and his family were living in an apartment off the Champs-Elysees in Paris at a cost of 14,000 euros (18,000 dollars) a…
A Turkish businessman, Kahraman Sadikoglu, has been freed after almost two months as a hostage in Iraq and is expected home on Tuesday, the Turkish foreign ministry said.
Sadikoglu, who was seized on December 19, was freed late on Mon…
A 27-year-old labourer, Kwabena Fosu, alias 'Gadafi', who broke into a mechanic shop at Amakom and made away with items valued at 2.2 million cedis, was on Monday sentenced to three years in jail in hard labour by a Kumasi circuit court.
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Records at the Children's Ward of the Tarkwa Government Hospital, Tarkwa indicate that malaria ranks high among other cases in the admission of children.
Sister Victoria Pepprah-Mensah, Nursing Officer in-charge of the Paediatrics Un…
A 21-year farmer of Live, a farming community in the Akatsi District, has been jailed seven years by the Aflao circuit court for defiling a school girl aged 12.
Mr Pius Cudjoe, a Police Chief Inspector, told the court that the victim…
Participants at the three-day African Regional Preparatory Conference on the Information Society on Thursday tasked development partners and business communities to make available critically needed funds for the development of Information …
The Pentagon Thursday defended a Marine Corps general who was quoted as telling an audience this week that it was "fun to shoot some people," referring to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lieutenant General James Mattis was "counse…
A number of lotto stakers in the Tamale Metropolis have expressed their dissatisfaction about the delay in the payment of their winnings by the Department of National Lotteries (DNL).
Speaking to the GNA in Tamale on Tuesday, they sa…
The father of British photographer Julie Ward, murdered in a Kenyan game reserve in 1988, on Thursday said he would present fresh evidence to Kenyan investigators in what could be his last effort to resolve the mysterious death.
John …
An immigration expert attending the second World Summit on Information Society's (WSIS) Africa conference in Accra on Thursday said Africa must strategise to tap the rich resources of its citizens living abroad for the region's socio-econo…
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