Barcelona will make another appearance in the United States this summer as they prepare for a renewed assault on La Liga and the Champions League in 2017-18. With Ernesto Valverde replacing Luis...
The makeshift red-canopied vehicles are ubiquitous in Beijing: rickshaws traversing narrow alleyways and skyscraper-lined avenues alike. A historic mode of transport, they have survived China's...
The founder and General Overseer of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim has ventured into acting. The pastor, affectionately called ‘Angel’ by his congregation, has starred...
The Arab-Israeli war of June 1967, or Six-Day War, radically changed the map of the Middle East. Between June 5 and 10, Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan and Syria and occupied Egypt's Sinai Peninsula,...
Economic activities in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state, south-east Nigeria were shut down Tuesday May 30th in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary, of the declaration of secession...
They travel thousands of kilometres across west Africa to get to the southeast Nigerian city of Calabar where small boats are supposed to take them to a better life. But these migrants aren't about...
The piles of stinking rubbish are growing, running water and electricity are scarce. In Ennerdale, public anger over the failures of post-apartheid South Africa has reached boiling point, exploding...
Israelis and Palestinians mark 50 years since the Six-Day War next week as the gap between them further widens, with both sides deeply scarred by years of violence, failed negotiations and broken...
Some use photographs, others seek global solidarity or throw themselves into campaigning for peace. Fifty years after the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has left scores of...
A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the jawbone, led by the...
It is not an experience he's keen to repeat but Carmelo Cuzzolino is resigned to the inevitable as stretched resources mean more merchant ships get caught up in the Mediterranean migrant crisis. The...
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has died at the age of 83 following brain surgery this year. Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, spied for the CIA until the United States invaded...
Sonny Bill Williams will miss Auckland Blues' match against Queensland Reds through injury, costing the centre a chance to impress All Black selectors ahead of the Test series against the British and...
Well it seems after the wonderful organization and creativity put up by the organizers of Ghana Meets Naija, Empire has some small downs. Ghanaian musician Ishmael Nii Ardey aka Nii Funny has...
Seasoned Journalist Kweku Baako Jnr. has been slammed by former Youth and Sports Minister in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Joseph Yamin for publishing in ‘The New Crusading Guide’ the...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is "absolutely essential" that the world unite to combat the threat from climate change. Speaking in New York, Mr Guterres said if any country...
US President Donald Trump called Germany's trade and spending policies "very bad" - intensifying a row between the longtime allies and immediately earning himself the moniker "destroyer of Western...
Sterling fell more than half a percent against the US dollar to $1.28. The pound fell sharply after a projection suggested the Conservative Party could fail to win an outright majority in the...
Drug testing for welfare clients in the United States has led to the disqualification of as few as 0.01 percent of recipients in some states. That's the latest research presented by the Australian...
Deputy Chief Scribe for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Lawson has described as loose talk comments by the Minister of State in-charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo on how...