Day: July 13, 2017
Amid Antitrust Concerns, Fantasy Sports Sites Call Off Merger
Fantasy sports websites DraftKings and FanDuel announced Thursday they were calling off their planned merger, following...
Herbert Mensah Grieves With Kotoko
The former chief executive of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Herbert Mensah has expressed his condolence to the club for the...
Robbers Shoot and Kill Police Officer, Another Seriously Injured
Two suspected armed robbers shot and killed an unarmed police officer when he and his colleague attempted to foil...
Akomadan Youth Using Tramadol As Aphrodisiac
The youth of Akomadan and neighbouring villages in the Offinso North District of the Ashanti region are said to be...
China’s Feng Grabs Early Lead At US Women’s Open
China's Feng Shanshan fired a bogey-free six-under-par 66 Thursday to grab a one-stroke lead over South Korean Amy Yang...
Morocco PM Plans Government Visits After Social Unrest
Morocco's government will make a regional tour to examine development projects, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani...
New Republican Health Bill Teeters, With Support In Doubt
Republican leaders unveiled a revamped health care bill Thursday aimed at salvaging President Donald Trump's top...
Egypt Churches Suspend Activities For Security Reasons
Egypt's Coptic and Evangelical Churches have suspended some of their activities for security reasons after a spate of...
Chicago’s Storied Sun-Times Newspaper Sold, For A Song
The Chicago Sun-Times, the city's oldest continuously published daily and winner of eight Pulitzer prizes, has been...
Windows Phone 8 Fades Out As Microsoft Mulls Mobile Strategy
Microsoft has ended support for its Windows 8 smartphones, as the US tech giant focuses on other segments, amid ongoing...
Oladipo, Lowry, Porzingis Join NBA’s Africa Game Lineups
NBA standouts Kyle Lowry, Victor Oladipo and Kristaps Porzingis were among the players named by the league Thursday to...
Videos Appear To Show Killing, Beatings By Iraq Forces
Videos allegedly shot in the Mosul area appear to show Iraqi security personnel executing a detainee and brutally...
Japanese Southpaw Miura Tries To Reclaim World Title
Japan's Takashi Miura set aside his depression 18 months ago and began working to reclaim the World Boxing Council...
SRI EMAS Touts Role In Start of Oil Production At Cape Three Points
SRI EMAS Limited (SEL), the company responsible for the complete subsea...
One Police Officer Dead
One of the two police officers who were shot at Lapaz in Accra by armed robbers has passed away. “…One of the...
Trump, Macron Avoid Criticism of China’s Xi
US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart offered praise for Xi Jinping at a press conference Thursday, but...
Liu Xiaobo’s Family By His Side When He Died
The family of China's Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo was by his side when he died on Thursday after his...
Ghana To Set Up Mission In Kuwait To Check Abuse of Women
The establishment of a diplomatic mission in Kuwait as a measure of checking the maltreatment of Ghanaians in the Gulf...
Akufo-Addo Launches Nat’l Entrepreneurship & Innovations Plan With $10m Seed Money
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday launched the National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Plan (NEIP),...