A 32-year-old prison inmate and Muslim convert from Massachusetts has been sentenced to three years behind bars for threatening to kill then Barack Obama when US president, prosecutors announced....
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever. When markets opened on Thursday, Bezos had a...
Fast-talking Anthony Scaramucci's appointment to a top White House post looks set to transform the balance of power in Donald Trump's faction-riven administration -- if he can survive. Last week...
President Donald Trump's announcement that transgender troops are no longer welcome in the US military caught the Pentagon off guard, leaving officials scrambling for a coherent response. Trump's...
The Ghana Athletics team will be in London next month (August) to compete in the 2017 IAAF world championship. The Ghana Athletics Associations aim is for the country to win medals at the tournament...
In heavy rain, North Koreans put down their umbrellas to bow before the mausoleum of founder Kim Il Sung and his son on Thursday as the country marked the end of the Korean War, which it calls...
A new exhibition is seeking to ignite a painful conversation in the United States about "racial terror" from the past by shedding light on the lynching of more than 4,000 African Americans. Inspired...
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that transgender people may not serve "in any capacity" in the US military, upending a key policy from Barack Obama's administration and drawing swift...
It was a time of chaos and intrigue in Russia, laden with questions about political legitimacy. So goes the plot of a rare Dvorak opera, which is being revived with an eye on its modern relevance....
World stock markets climbed Wednesday, with all eyes on the Federal Reserve's US interest rate decision as corporate America pushed Wall Street to new record highs. New York trading was off to a...
Iran's top nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday that new sanctions approved by the US House of Representatives were "a hostile measure" that breached Washington's commitments under a 2015 nuclear...
We now have a trailer for the documentary about the rise and fall of Jay-Z and Kanye West, ordered bu The UK’s Channel 4 Titled Public Enemies: Jay-Z v Kanye, it is produced by ACME Films and...
Jean-Michel Basquiat enjoys a stratospheric following -- earlier this year, a 1982 oil painting by the late 20th century great became the most expensive work by a US artist ever sold at auction. But...
US President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to rip up a free trade deal with Canada and Mexico if the text is not renegotiated to his liking. "We are renegotiating NAFTA and if we don't get the deal we...
This picture taken and released on July 4, 2017 by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (2nd R) inspecting the test-fire of the...
Senate Republicans vote Tuesday on the latest effort to repeal Obamacare, in the face of withering criticism from President Donald Trump -- and confusion over whether they even have the votes to move...
President Donald Trump once again lashed out at the EU on Tuesday for what he called its "protectionist" trade practices, and indicated the United States will focus on a major deal with Britain....
WHEN former President of the United States of America (USA), Barrack Hussein Obama, visited Ghana in 2009, he applauded our efforts at entrenching a strong democratic culture in the sub-Saharan...
President Donald Trump strongly warned Republicans on Monday that they must pass health care reform, taking his party to task and bluntly declaring that "Obamacare is death." With the effort to...
The UN accused Australia Monday of backtracking on a deal to relax its strong stance on asylum-seekers and resettle some refugees now held in overseas detention on home soil. The UN High Commissioner...
