Aung San Suu Kyi's government will face its first test at the ballot box on Saturday in by-elections around Myanmar seen as a barometer for growing disillusionment with her party a year after it took...
American artist Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag recognized around the world as a symbol of gay pride, has died, close friend and rights activist Cleve Jones announced. Baker, who was 65,...
President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner have held onto real estate and business investments valued in the hundreds of millions, while working government jobs, according...
Driven back by police batons and snarling dogs, or beaten and robbed by the smugglers they relied on, migrants caught in Serbia have regularly been victims of violence as they struggle to reach...
After months of controversy, Bob Dylan is in Stockholm to finally grab his Nobel literature prize in a meeting with the Swedish Academy, which awarded him for his poetry. The first songwriter to...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in the bid to maintain constant interaction with Ghanaians would be spending the weekend in the Ashanti Region. The move, which the President intends to...
Manchester United's injury problems have worsened, with midfielder Juan Mata joining defenders Chris Smalling and Phil Jones on the sidelines. United announced on Friday that Mata, 28, has had...
Mr Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu, the Deputy Minister-designate of Health, has given the assurance that the ministry intends to clear the backlog of nurses by employing them to improve health delivery in...
China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against Islamist extremism. The measures include prohibiting "abnormally" long beards,...
Ghana and Algeria are exploring means to improve air transport connectivity between the two countries to boost trade and economic development. In line with this, the two countries have exchanged a...
The Western Regional office of the Ghana Shippers' Authority (GSA) in Takoradi has held a forum in the metropolis on the United Nations Convention on Contract for International Carriage of Goods...
The Management of Accra Hearts of Oak has denied reports of appointing Kempes Papa Nii Ofosuoware as their new Managing Director (MD). Impeccable sources within the club have revealed that the...
South Korea's Kang Sung scorched the Tournament Course at the Golf Club of Houston on Friday, firing a nine-under par 63 for a record-setting second-round lead at the Houston Open. The 29-year-old,...
Six persons who were being held on remand at the Sekondi Prison for various offences have been discharged under the Justice For All programme that seeks to decongest the country’s prisons. At a...
Japan's cherry blossom season kicks off boozy parties across the country and draws tourists from far and wide, but the annual coming-of-spring ritual isn't official until inspectors like Hisato...
Flooded rivers were still rising Saturday in two Australian states with two women dead and four people missing after torrential rains in the wake of a powerful tropical cyclone. Queensland police...
The Madina Police have arrested a manager of a sachet water company who is alleged to belong to a robbery gang that has been attacking some residents of Madina, Accra. The suspect, Edward Kojo Antwi,...
The Chairman of the West Akim Municipal branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mr Samuel Asante Anaafi, has called for teachers to be included in any processes for negotiation...
If it weren't for his blond hair and blue eyes, Justus Rosenberg may have never lived to tell the tale of his little-known role in helping hundreds of artists and other intellectuals escape...
Demonstrators in Paraguay have set fire to the country's Congress amid violent protests against a bill that would let the president seek re-election. Protesters stormed the legislature, breaking...
