Senior defence aides warned president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that any guarantee to defend India against Chinese attack would require a commitment to use nuclear weapons.
On a declassified tape recording, released Thursday, the then-…
The World Health Organisation has declared tuberculosis an emergency in Africa after cases of the killer disease tripled in countries with high rates of HIV and doubled on the continent as a whole since 1990.
The declaration was made…
The United States and the European Union have agreed not to seek an emergency meeting of the watchdog UN nuclear agency even if Iran fails to meet a September 3 UN deadline to suspend atomic fuel work that could be used to make nuclear we…
Acting in response to a series of civil aviation disasters this month, France will next week begin publishing a list of airlines banned in its airspace for safety reasons, officials said Thursday.
The country's civil aviation authori…
The alarming scope and size of the outbreak of cholera in the West Africa Sub-region has prompted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to hold a regional meeting in Dakar, Senegal early next week to arrest…
The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) on Thursday cautioned prospective vehicle buyers to desist from procuring fake documents to register uncustomed vehicles.
The CEPS said some devious Ghanaians still resort to import…
The Management of the Ghana Port and Harbours Authority (GPHA) on Friday donated a total of 8,400 bags of rice valued at 1.6 billion cedis to the people of Niger.
The donation is GPHA's "widow's mite" to help Nigerien victims of the food…
Expect tennis's big guns to be booming when the US Open begins on Monday, despite a rash of injuries that saw many of them sidelined for significant stretches since Wimbledon.
Men's world number one Roger Federer has played just once …
The Management of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has received the green light to use the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra for this weekend's Premiership duel against Tema Real Sportive.
A statement signed by Ashford Tettey Oku,…
Expect tennis's big guns to be booming when the US Open begins on Monday, despite a rash of injuries that saw many of them sidelined for significant stretches since Wimbledon.
Men's world number one Roger Federer has played just once …
The Management of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has received the green light to use the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra for this weekend's Premiership duel against Tema Real Sportive.
A statement signed by Ashford Tettey Oku,…
At least 60,000 land litigation cases were recorded in the courts in 2002 alone, Mr Charles Bintin, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) has stated.
"This state of affairs is overburdening the judicial process an…
At least 60,000 land litigation cases were recorded in the courts in 2002 alone, Mr Charles Bintin, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) has stated.
"This state of affairs is overburdening the judicial process an…
Fishermen caught using dynamite, light and other unorthodox means for fishing in the Mfantseman District should be fined two million cedis, their gear seized and their leaders sentenced to one year in prison.
The fish caught with dy…
Fishermen caught using dynamite, light and other unorthodox means for fishing in the Mfantseman District should be fined two million cedis, their gear seized and their leaders sentenced to one year in prison.
The fish caught with dy…
A hit-and-run driver who knocked down a 47-year-old woman and farmer from Bonsu near Nkoranza with his urvan bus at Bonsu on Wednesday is declared wanted by the police.
Madam Agartha Serwaa popularly called Akosua Mpeduoro, the victi…
Prince Andrew paid a brief visit on Saturday to British troops serving in southern Iraq, as well as to an Iraqi naval base, Britain's domestic Press Association news agency said.
Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, and a hel…
The President of the Saltpond Branch of the Village Outreach Network, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Madam Victoria A Hanson, has donated materials worth about 3,000 dollars to the Saltpond Government Hospital.
The items meant to…
A hit-and-run driver who knocked down a 47-year-old woman and farmer from Bonsu near Nkoranza with his urvan bus at Bonsu on Wednesday is declared wanted by the police.
Madam Agartha Serwaa popularly called Akosua Mpeduoro, the victi…
Prince Andrew paid a brief visit on Saturday to British troops serving in southern Iraq, as well as to an Iraqi naval base, Britain's domestic Press Association news agency said.
Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, and a hel…
The President of the Saltpond Branch of the Village Outreach Network, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Madam Victoria A Hanson, has donated materials worth about 3,000 dollars to the Saltpond Government Hospital.
The items meant to…
A hit-and-run driver who knocked down a 47-year-old woman and farmer from Bonsu near Nkoranza with his urvan bus at Bonsu on Wednesday is declared wanted by the police.
Madam Agartha Serwaa popularly called Akosua Mpeduoro, the victi…
Prince Andrew paid a brief visit on Saturday to British troops serving in southern Iraq, as well as to an Iraqi naval base, Britain's domestic Press Association news agency said.
Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, and a hel…
The President of the Saltpond Branch of the Village Outreach Network, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Madam Victoria A Hanson, has donated materials worth about 3,000 dollars to the Saltpond Government Hospital.
The items meant to…
US President George W. Bush led seven-time Tour de France champion and fellow Texan Lance Armstrong on a two-hour bicycle tour of his ranch Saturday as temperatures soared near 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius).
At the end o…
Al-Ahly of Egypt became the first club to qualify for the African Champions League semi-finals after a dramatic 1-1 draw with Raja Casablanca of Morocco late Saturday.
The Cairo outfit appeared to be heading for their first competitiv…
US President George W. Bush led seven-time Tour de France champion and fellow Texan Lance Armstrong on a two-hour bicycle tour of his ranch Saturday as temperatures soared near 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius).
At the end o…
Al-Ahly of Egypt became the first club to qualify for the African Champions League semi-finals after a dramatic 1-1 draw with Raja Casablanca of Morocco late Saturday.
The Cairo outfit appeared to be heading for their first competitiv…
US President George W. Bush led seven-time Tour de France champion and fellow Texan Lance Armstrong on a two-hour bicycle tour of his ranch Saturday as temperatures soared near 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius).
At the end o…
Al-Ahly of Egypt became the first club to qualify for the African Champions League semi-finals after a dramatic 1-1 draw with Raja Casablanca of Morocco late Saturday.
The Cairo outfit appeared to be heading for their first competitiv…
The Professional League Board (PLB) has pushed the 21 week GT Premiership fixtures initially scheduled for this weekend to Wednesday August 24.
The change is to afford Ghana's sole representative at the continental front, King Faisal…
Chelsea finally got their man on Friday signing highly-rated Ghana midfielder Michael Essien from French champions Lyon.
The English champions had been chasing the 22-year-old Essien throughout the summer, but Lyon at first refused to…
The Professional League Board (PLB) has pushed the 21 week GT Premiership fixtures initially scheduled for this weekend to Wednesday August 24.
The change is to afford Ghana's sole representative at the continental front, King Faisal…
Chelsea finally got their man on Friday signing highly-rated Ghana midfielder Michael Essien from French champions Lyon.
The English champions had been chasing the 22-year-old Essien throughout the summer, but Lyon at first refused to…
The Professional League Board (PLB) has pushed the 21 week GT Premiership fixtures initially scheduled for this weekend to Wednesday August 24.
The change is to afford Ghana's sole representative at the continental front, King Faisal…
Chelsea finally got their man on Friday signing highly-rated Ghana midfielder Michael Essien from French champions Lyon.
The English champions had been chasing the 22-year-old Essien throughout the summer, but Lyon at first refused to…
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Kwesi Yankah has been appointed the Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University.
This followed the statutory retirement of Professor Anna Reynolds Barnes,…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) that it had renewed approval for seven anti-AIDS drugs made by Indian firm Ranbaxy, almost a year after they were struck from an international list because of concerns over the reliability of laboratory …
Hundreds of villagers clashed with police in southern China leaving several people injured, villagers and officials said Friday in the latest of a spate of disputes over land requisition and corruption.
An estimated 800 people in Das…
A man who claimed to be a driver's mate has been charged in two separate cases of stealing a quantity of oil palm fruit bunches and firewood had been remanded in prison custody by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Stephen Kwaku Osei plead…
Forty brand new computers donated by the government to the Asankrangwa Secondary Technical School (ASANTECH) cannot be used.
Mr Dzidzeme K. Sedanu-Kwawu, Headmaster of the School disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an in…
Six men, including a Catholic priest, pleaded not guilty Friday to the murder last month of a 77-year-old Italian bishop in the diocese he founded in northern Kenya four decades ago.
The accused appeared before Nairobi High Court Judg…
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Kwesi Yankah has been appointed the Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University.
This followed the statutory retirement of Professor Anna Reynolds Barnes,…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) that it had renewed approval for seven anti-AIDS drugs made by Indian firm Ranbaxy, almost a year after they were struck from an international list because of concerns over the reliability of laboratory …
Hundreds of villagers clashed with police in southern China leaving several people injured, villagers and officials said Friday in the latest of a spate of disputes over land requisition and corruption.
An estimated 800 people in Das…
A man who claimed to be a driver's mate has been charged in two separate cases of stealing a quantity of oil palm fruit bunches and firewood had been remanded in prison custody by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Stephen Kwaku Osei plead…
Forty brand new computers donated by the government to the Asankrangwa Secondary Technical School (ASANTECH) cannot be used.
Mr Dzidzeme K. Sedanu-Kwawu, Headmaster of the School disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an in…
Six men, including a Catholic priest, pleaded not guilty Friday to the murder last month of a 77-year-old Italian bishop in the diocese he founded in northern Kenya four decades ago.
The accused appeared before Nairobi High Court Judg…
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Kwesi Yankah has been appointed the Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University.
This followed the statutory retirement of Professor Anna Reynolds Barnes,…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) that it had renewed approval for seven anti-AIDS drugs made by Indian firm Ranbaxy, almost a year after they were struck from an international list because of concerns over the reliability of laboratory …