The leaderships of
the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the People's National Convention (PNC) have agreed to endorse the decision of the two parties to unite.
The decision followed a stage reached at the previous Nkrumaist Unity …
Ireland's largest sporting organisation, which oversees the country's traditional games voted on Saturday, to temporarily allow soccer and rugby to be played at its 80,000-seater Croke Park stadium in Dublin, a spokesman said.
The his…
Lille eased their path towards the Champions League with a 2-1 French league victory over Lens here on Saturday as fellow challengers Marseille and Monaco slipped up.
With runaway leaders Lyon hosting Paris Saint Germain on Sunday, th…
Kenyan runners are poised to make their presence felt yet again in Boston on Monday, where they will seek to extend their country's recent hegemony over the storied Boston Marathon.
Kenyan men have won the last three editions of the B…
Henrik Larsson would have been proud of Craig Bellamy's winning goal against Aberdeen, according to Celtic manager Martin O'Neill.
The on-loan Newcastle player fired in a sensational volley to clinch a 3-2 home win on Saturday after t…
Emirate Airlines, "flew" above more than a dozen companies to win the maiden G-18 Golf Championship played at the Tema Country Gold Course on Sunday.
The pair of Rob Macalski and Eric Dyrbeck produced the winner formula with a net sc…
The Meteorological Services Department, on Saturday announced that the inflow of moisture far into the country is expected to sustain the cloudy conditions over the entire country.
Few thundery-showers are expected over the Eastern, …
Roman Catholic cardinals began meeting Saturday for the 12th and last time before the secret conclave in which 115 of them will elect a successor to the late Pope John Paul II.
The cardinals were expected to wrap up debate on the stat…
The chiefs and people of Mabang in the Ahafo-Ano North District in the Ashanti Region are converting an abandoned post office building under rehabilitation into a police station.
The police station in the town has been temporarily cl…
Germany fired its ambassador to Switzerland Thursday after he publicly criticized Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer over a policy to stop printing staff obituaries for former Nazis.
A foreign ministry spokeswoman confirmed that Frank E…
The Food and Agriculture Organization on Wednesday said it has alternative programmes and facilities that would benefit Ghana's fisheries industry and move it forward.
Mr. Oloche A. Edache, Assistant Director-General and Regional Repr…
Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City, on Thursday advised students studying tourism to be innovative to make money from the industry.
He said tourism was a private sector activity and a lo…
A visiting Belgian Senator, Mr. Arnold Van Aperen has promised to assist local producers of mango, orange and pineapples to have access to Belgian and European markets due to their high quality.
"The Ghanaian fruits are of high quali…
Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to bombing the 1996 Olympics and a US abortion clinic two years later, killing a police officer and wounding a nurse.
Rudolph, 38, also pleaded guilty to bombing a gay nightclub and two other f…
Liverpool set up a mouth-watering Champions League semi-final against English Premiership rivals Chelsea after grinding out a 0-0 draw in the second leg of their quarter-final against Juventus here Wednesday.
A stalemate at the Delle …
Newly promoted Ebusua Dwarfs beat Atlantic Hall of University of Cape Coast (UCC) 2-1 in a friendly soccer match played at the Robert Mensah Sports stadium at Cape Coast, on Wednesday.
The match formed part of the activities to comm…
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has thrown an open invitation to individuals and groups to submit memoranda to the Committee appointed by the Congress to embark on constitutional reforms for the FA.
The move is to afford all Ghan…
The Ghana High Commission has donated a mamograph, equipment for breast cancer screening, to the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre.
The donation was in response to the hospital's appeal launched last year for diagnostic equipment.…
The British High Commissioner, Mr Gordon Wetherell, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Usman Nuhu Sharubutu, at his residence near the Accra Central Mosque in Accra.
A statement issued by the High C…
Italy on Tuesday adopted the European Union arrest warrant becoming the last EU country to do so following strong opposition from a governing coalition party.
The warrant aims to replace cumbersome extradition procedures by allowing E…
Scott Harrison, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) featherweight champion, has said he will revert to his usual spartan training regime ahead of the next defence of his title against Michael Brodie on June 3.
For his last fight in hi…
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has launched the Queens Baton Relay, to herald the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.
The Queens Baton Relay is a traditional event that symbolises the traditional curtain raiser to the C…
The Status Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has invited 30 players to appear before it on Thursday, April 14, for hearing.
The players are praying the Committee to grant them floating status to enable them continue wi…
Officer Cadet Mahamady Belem of Abyssinia Platoon of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) emerged winner of this year's annual Inter Platoon Junior Cadet Steeplechase competition held at the Ghana Military Academy, Teshie, Accra.
Cadet Officer…
The national handball competition enters its second week at all the centres this week after a thrilling first round last weekend.
The week would provide the Prisons Service with an opportunity to consolidate their position in the l…
The moderate wing of Indian Kashmir's main separatist alliance said Monday it will meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraff when he visits New Delhi this weekend, local media reported.
The All Party Hurriyat Conference has been push…
A forum of stakeholders was held at Wa on Monday to provide a platform to the visiting 16-member mission from the South African based African Peer Review Mission.
The forum was an opportunity to question stakeholders on a range of is…
George Appiah, a 20-year-old unemployed and Kaku Kwasi Ebra, a 15-year-old student in Cote d'Ivoire, appeared before a Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday for stealing a VCD deck.
Ebra, who is a brother-in-law to Appiah told t…
A discharge of water from a dam swept away scores of Hindu pilgrims while they were praying on the banks of the Narmada River in central India, leaving at least 53 dead, senior officials said.
The chief minister of the central state …
The three refurbished wards of the children's block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), was on Monday inaugurated at a ceremony at the hospital in Kumasi.
The project, which involved the laying of new tiles, replacement of …
Baffour Kwasi Afrifa I, the chief of Akim Peseato in the Fanteakwa District, has called on Churches and opinion leaders to assist traditional authorities in abolishing outmoded customs and traditions.
He noted that obsolete traditio…
Dozens of stamp collectors, tourists, priests, nuns and ordinary Romans queued outside a Vatican post office in St Peter's Square Tuesday as rare stamps marking the papal vacancy went on sale.
"They are not particularly valuable, may…
Bayern Munich captain Oliver Kahn claims English opposition always struggle against the 18-time German champions and is confident the club can overturn a 4-2 first leg deficit when they face Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-final at…
Filipinos are losing confidence in President Gloria Arroyo's ability to deal with a looming fiscal crisis in the Philippines, according to an independent poll published Monday.
The March 3-16 Pulse Asia poll of 1,200 adults showed onl…
A day after the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, more flowers than usual were placed at Paris' Place de l'Alma on Sunday where the prince's
late wife Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997.
Diana admirers placed …
Below is a GNA Sports compilation of the winners of the gala competition since it's inception in 1974.
1974 - Hearts beat Fankobaa 5-4 (pen)
1975 - No competition
1976 - Hearts beat Kotoko 1-0
1977 - Olympics beat Hearts…
Nigerian Catholics in this mainly-Muslim northern city were deeply moved by Pope John Paul II's funeral on Friday, but outraged that a power-cut prevented them for seeing the end of the ceremony.
"The funeral is the most historic even…
Roman Catholic cardinals convened on Saturday to discuss further details of the transition until a successor is named to Pope John Paul II, and declined afterwards to comment on their deliberations.
A South African cardinal, Wilfrid F…
The Vatican is to issue a set of stamps that will be usable only until the election of a new pope, a period that could be as little as 10 days, it announced Saturday.
The city-state's philately and minting office will issue the set of…
Michael Jackson's defense against child sex charges took a fresh blow Tuesday when his former maid told how she caught him in the shower with an Australian boy.
The woman, whose son tearfully told jurors that he was groped three times…
With the UN Security Council deadlocked over key issues in Sudan, the United States on Tuesday announced it would put forward three separate UN resolutions to tackle the Darfur crisis.
After weeks of stalemate on potential war crimes …
Japan has welcomed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's resolve for the world body to adopt sweeping reforms but insisted that an expansion of the Security Council bring new permanent members such as Tokyo.
Annan, presenting a report Mon…
Southampton manager Harry Redknapp said Monday he planned to hold talks with Sir Clive Woodward following the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand which finishes in July.
Woodward, who guided England to the Rugby World Cup in 2…
World number one Roger Federer and women's number two Amelie Mauresmo of France were named top seeds here Monday for the WTA and ATP Masters Series tournament that begins here Wednesday.
But the main rivals on both the men's and women…
Roger Federer successfully defended his Indian Wells ATP Masters Series title, defeating Lleyton Hewitt 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 in Sunday's final to claim his 26th career singles crown.
The world number one Federer is undefeated in his past 17 …
Italian league table after Sunday's matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):
AC Milan 29 20 6 3 49 17 66
Juventus 29 20 6 3 47 16 66
Inter Milan …
Nana Asamoah Boamah, a sports analyst has called on the management and supporters of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club and Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football club to do away with the rancour and perceived enmity between them and rather promote …
Insurgents of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) over the weekend chopped off lips, ears and breasts of seven women in northern Uganda's Kitgum district, a local leader and the official newspaper reported Monday.
The incident occurred n…
Senior allies of French President Jacques Chirac are to appear in court on Monday in a corruption case examining allegations that kickbacks were paid for public works contracts to finance political parties.
A total of 47 people have b…
Zambia's Vice President Lupando Mwape is threatening to quit his party over alleged acts of corruption and bribery to win votes ahead of the ruling party's convention, state radio said on Monday.
Mwape said senior figures within the r…
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