Articles by Kwame Mensah
BCCI Announces Windfall For Contracted Indian Cricket Players
The Indian cricket board Wednesday doubled the salaries of its contracted players while retaining former skipper...
Trump Says Briefed On Incident In London
US President Donald Trump was briefed on events in London outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, after reports...
UBS Charges Customers To Deposit Euros
The annual 0.6% charge will take affect from May. Swiss bank UBS will start charging customers who deposit more than a...
NGOs Demand Access As Yemen Suffers ‘open-Air Massacre’
Humanitarian groups on Wednesday demanded access to civilians on the brink of famine in Yemen, describing the two-year...
London Taxi Company’s New Ansty Park Plant Opens In Coventry
A black cab manufacturer that was "on its knees" five years ago is officially opening a new £300m plant, creating more...
French Police Detain Six Grenoble Rugby Players Following Rape Claim
Six Grenoble rugby players including two Irishmen, two New Zealanders and an Australian, were detained Wednesday...
Zimbabwe Opposition Call For ‘biased’ Electoral Body To Be Scrapped
A coalition of Zimbabwean opposition parties on Wednesday staged a protest ahead of next year's polls, demanding the...
Beatlemania Blooms Belatedly In Cuba
While their American and European peers twisted and shouted to The Beatles in the 1960s, in Cuba childhood sweethearts...
US Teen’s Gang Rape Streamed Live On Facebook
Chicago police on Wednesday were looking for up to six suspects who allegedly raped a teenage girl and broadcast the...
‘Matter of Time’ Before IS Leader Baghdadi Killed
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared Wednesday that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death is...
US Existing Home Sales Slow In February
Amid rising prices and slim inventory, sales of existing homes slowed in February, cooling from January's record pace...
Trump Wishes Iranians Happy New Year
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued belated best wishes to those celebrating the Persian New Year. In a...
Indian ‘murders Daughter In Suspected Honour’ Killing
An Indian father slit his daughter's throat with a meat cleaver and dumped her body on her boyfriend's doorstep in a...
Reports of Shots Outside UK Parliament
There are reports of shots being fired outside the Houses of Parliament and the Palace of Westminster is reportedly in...
Russian Singer Samoilova Barred From Contest
Julia Samoilova was banned from entering Ukraine for three years because of her "illegal" visit , the Ukrainian SBU...
Senegal Religious TV Channel Broadcasts Porn Film
Touba TV inadvertently aired the explicit content in the middle of the afternoon yesterday A religious TV channel in...
Erdogan Warns Europeans ‘will Not Walk Safely’ On the Streets
Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan has issued a chilling warning that Europeans 'will not walk safely on the streets' as...
Singapore Court Denies Full Compensation To Woman In IVF Mix-Up
A Singaporean woman inseminated with a stranger's sperm in a startling in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) mistake cannot be...
Chuck Berry In Rock ‘n’ Roll Style In Posthumous Song
Days after he died at age 90, a new song came out Wednesday from Chuck Berry driven by the sort of rollicking guitar...
Ex-WWE Wrestlers To Brawl In Pakistan As Security Improves
More than two dozen pro wrestlers will be ready to rumble in Pakistan this summer as security improves, including...