Former South African President Nelson Mandela would travel to London to celebrate his 90th birthday on June 27, BBC reported on Tuesday.
The celebration would be a public concert held at Hyde Park, which features Shirley Bassey, Simple Mi…
The Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations will on Friday, May 9 interact with corporate organizations that sponsored its activities last year on the importance of tourism in national development.
It would be a dinner event to h…
Two workers were killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a mine in southern Brazil early Monday, Brazilian Military Police said.
The accident occurred when an oxygen cylinder burst in the mine in Lauro Muller city in Brazil…
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would continue his pursuit to add 1,000 officers to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) despite the city's 406-million-dollar budget shortfall, The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.
To…
US police unveiled on Monday the suicide notes of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey who was convicted for running an illegal prostitution business serving VIPs in Washington area.
Police in Tarpon Springs, Florida, released the not…
A suicide bomber on Tuesday tried to attack a security check post in northwestern Pakistan, killing three people and injuring five others, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.
A man in a cycle rickshaw tried to enter the check post …
ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan Tuesday appealed to all member-states to offer "generous" aid to Myanmar where a cyclone has killed more than 10,000 people.
"We express our profound sympathies and condolences to the families …
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has instructed the army to impose a full closure on the West Bank in light of the Remembrance Day for Israeli soldiers and Independence Day, said an army announcement released on Tuesday.
The clos…
An Islamic Hamas movement militant was killed and another was seriously wounded early Tuesday in an Israeli air-strike in northern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics reported.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance servic…
With the death toll in the Myanmar cyclone now standing at around 15,000, India has dispatched two naval ships loaded with relief supplies to the cyclone-battered nation, with more relief assistance to be sent by air, according to The Time…
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Monday had a minute-long laughing fit during his trial when he heard that his former military aides used to spy on him through a keyhole.
Fujimori, extradited from Chile last September, fa…
Iran will not support any deal that violates its "nuclear rights," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Monday, three days after major powers agreed to offer a new package of incentives to resolve the country's nuc…
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday sent a message of sympathy to Myanmar's top leader Senior-General Than Shwe in the wake of a cyclone that killed tens of thousands of people in the southeast Asian country.
As a friendly neighbor,…
A U.S. diplomat said his country is doing homework to remove the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) from the terrorist list and eliminate Nepal from the negative travel advisory, The Rising Nepal reported Tuesday.
According to …
The United States is providing an initial sum of 250,000 dollars in aid to Myanmar, southern and central parts of which were devastated by cyclone Nargis over the weekend, the State Department said Monday.
"The embassy (in Yangon) did iss…
The weather will be cloudy over the southern half of Ghana on Wednesday morning with occasional thunderstorms or rain showers along the east coast.
However, mist and fog patches will occur over forest and high grounds. Later in the a…
Five male traders' sustained cutlass wounds on Tuesday evening, when some traders at the Kotokoraba Market in Cape Coast clashed following a misunderstanding.
Several other people near the scene of the clash were said to have sustai…
Flights were resumed Wednesday at Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport after a six-hour standstill, the official National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Three flights of Lebanese Middle East Airlines coming from Istanbul, Kuwait City a…
Former South African President Nelson Mandela would travel to London to celebrate his 90th birthday on June 27, BBC reported on Tuesday.
The celebration would be a public concert held at Hyde Park, which features Shirley Bassey, Simple Mi…
The Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations will on Friday, May 9 interact with corporate organizations that sponsored its activities last year on the importance of tourism in national development.
It would be a dinner event to h…
Two workers were killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a mine in southern Brazil early Monday, Brazilian Military Police said.
The accident occurred when an oxygen cylinder burst in the mine in Lauro Muller city in Brazil…
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would continue his pursuit to add 1,000 officers to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) despite the city's 406-million-dollar budget shortfall, The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.
To…
US police unveiled on Monday the suicide notes of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey who was convicted for running an illegal prostitution business serving VIPs in Washington area.
Police in Tarpon Springs, Florida, released the not…
A suicide bomber on Tuesday tried to attack a security check post in northwestern Pakistan, killing three people and injuring five others, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.
A man in a cycle rickshaw tried to enter the check post …
ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan Tuesday appealed to all member-states to offer "generous" aid to Myanmar where a cyclone has killed more than 10,000 people.
"We express our profound sympathies and condolences to the families …
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has instructed the army to impose a full closure on the West Bank in light of the Remembrance Day for Israeli soldiers and Independence Day, said an army announcement released on Tuesday.
The clos…
An Islamic Hamas movement militant was killed and another was seriously wounded early Tuesday in an Israeli air-strike in northern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics reported.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance servic…
With the death toll in the Myanmar cyclone now standing at around 15,000, India has dispatched two naval ships loaded with relief supplies to the cyclone-battered nation, with more relief assistance to be sent by air, according to The Time…
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Monday had a minute-long laughing fit during his trial when he heard that his former military aides used to spy on him through a keyhole.
Fujimori, extradited from Chile last September, fa…
Iran will not support any deal that violates its "nuclear rights," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Monday, three days after major powers agreed to offer a new package of incentives to resolve the country's nuc…
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday sent a message of sympathy to Myanmar's top leader Senior-General Than Shwe in the wake of a cyclone that killed tens of thousands of people in the southeast Asian country.
As a friendly neighbor,…
A U.S. diplomat said his country is doing homework to remove the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) from the terrorist list and eliminate Nepal from the negative travel advisory, The Rising Nepal reported Tuesday.
According to …
The United States is providing an initial sum of 250,000 dollars in aid to Myanmar, southern and central parts of which were devastated by cyclone Nargis over the weekend, the State Department said Monday.
"The embassy (in Yangon) did iss…
The weather will be cloudy over the southern half of Ghana on Wednesday morning with occasional thunderstorms or rain showers along the east coast.
However, mist and fog patches will occur over forest and high grounds. Later in the a…
Five male traders' sustained cutlass wounds on Tuesday evening, when some traders at the Kotokoraba Market in Cape Coast clashed following a misunderstanding.
Several other people near the scene of the clash were said to have sustai…
Flights were resumed Wednesday at Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport after a six-hour standstill, the official National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Three flights of Lebanese Middle East Airlines coming from Istanbul, Kuwait City a…
Prof John Evans Atta Mills, Flag Bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), for Elections 2008 on Wednesday said the task of the Party would be to improve the economy, refresh the national spirit and reunite the people of Ghana.
…
Prof John Evans Atta Mills, Flag Bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), for Elections 2008 on Wednesday said the task of the Party would be to improve the economy, refresh the national spirit and reunite the people of Ghana.
…
Anlo Senior High School from the Volta Region on Sunday retained the Ghana Constitution Game Competition when it won the competition organised as part of the Annual Constitution Week celebration.
Anlo, the defending champions, who ex…
President John Agyekum Kufuor arrived in London on Monday to attend an international conference to discuss concrete ideas for drawing on the power of businesses to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He was…
Anlo Senior High School from the Volta Region on Sunday retained the Ghana Constitution Game Competition when it won the competition organised as part of the Annual Constitution Week celebration.
Anlo, the defending champions, who ex…
President John Agyekum Kufuor arrived in London on Monday to attend an international conference to discuss concrete ideas for drawing on the power of businesses to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He was…
The Eastern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Emmanuel Quaye-Sowah, has called on the police to be very alert during this year's election and pick on early warning signals to forestall any confusio…
A Special Regional Inter Party Advisory Committee Forum on Building Stakeholders Confidence in the outcome of the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections was on Friday held in Kumasi.
The Forum organized by the Electoral Commiss…
Turkish General Staff said on Friday that Turkish jets bombed 43 targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) at Quandil Mountain's Iraqi side, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Turkish jets killed a large…
The Eastern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Emmanuel Quaye-Sowah, has called on the police to be very alert during this year's election and pick on early warning signals to forestall any confusio…
A Special Regional Inter Party Advisory Committee Forum on Building Stakeholders Confidence in the outcome of the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections was on Friday held in Kumasi.
The Forum organized by the Electoral Commiss…
Turkish General Staff said on Friday that Turkish jets bombed 43 targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) at Quandil Mountain's Iraqi side, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Turkish jets killed a large…
Some military personnel on Friday called on the government to get rid of community police under the National Youth Employment Programme as their operations may pose security problems during the December elections.
The military person…
The Airport Branch of Rotary Club, Ghana in collaboration with their Dutch counterparts on Friday presented Transducer equipment worth 12,000 Euros to the Urology Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to aid in the early detection o…