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US Oil Firm Halliburton To Pay $30 Mn To Settle Angola Bribery Case

Oil field services giant Halliburton will pay nearly $30 million to resolve allegations of bribery in Angola, US...

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US Attorney General Head To El Salvador, Amid Trump Scorn

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions headed to El Salvador on Thursday for meetings on law enforcement cooperation,...

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Jeff Bezos Overtakes Bill Gates To Become World’s Richest Man

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90...

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Becomes World’s Richest Person

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday became the world's richest person, as a jump in the share price of the US tech...

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Scaramucci Upends White House Balance of Power

Fast-talking Anthony Scaramucci's appointment to a top White House post looks set to transform the balance of power in...

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What Next After Trump’s Military Transgender Ban?

President Donald Trump's announcement that transgender troops are no longer welcome in the US military caught the...

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Anglo American Sets Aside $101m For Silicosis Claims

British miner Anglo American has set aside $101 million (87 million euros) to cover potential damages for former South...

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Jeff Bezos Beats Bill Gates To World’s Richest Man Title

According to Forbes and Bloomberg, the Amazon CEO had a net worth of over $89 billion as of the close of markets...

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British American Tobacco Wins Brexit Sales Boost

British American Tobacco, fresh from its takeover of US peer Reynolds, reported on Thursday sliding first-half net...

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Madonna Accepts Damages Over ‘invasion of Privacy’

Madonna and her adopted twin daughters have accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over a “serious...

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AstraZeneca, Merck Strike Key Cancer Drugs Partnership

Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and Merck said on Thursday they had agreed a multi-billion-dollar deal to jointly...

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Tesla Aims For Mainstream Ride With ‘Model 3’

Customers will finally get behind the wheels of Model 3 cars on Friday as Tesla tries to veer from its high-end image...

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Tullow Records $ 300m Loss After Tax In 2017 First Half

Tullow Oil has posted a loss after tax of 300 million dollars for the first half of this year. The figure represents a...

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Former Fiat Chrysler US Exec Indicted In Union Payoff Scheme

A Detroit grand jury on Wednesday indicted a former Fiat Chrysler executive in charge of negotiating US labor...

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Tillerson Denies Suggestions He Will Resign

US Secretary of State on Wednesday Rex Tillerson denied suggestions that he plans to resign because of disagreement...

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Importers Blame Custom Officials’ Interdiction For Port Delays

At least one hundred staff of the Custom Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) at the Tema Port have been...

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Recruitment of Caterers For School Feeding Prog. Begins

Recruitment of caterers to cook for pupils in schools under the Ghana School Feeding Programme across the country has...

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Trailer Released For ‘Public Enemies

We now have a trailer for the documentary about the rise and fall of Jay-Z and Kanye West, ordered bu The UK’s...

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Britain Makes Pitch For Massive Australia Warship Contract

Britain's defence secretary Wednesday made a strong push to build Australia's next fleet of warships, saying the...