About 500 persons have been affected by cholera since its outbreak in the Central Region a month ago, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. According to the service, no death has been...
About 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as the authorities try to prevent the spread of bird flu across northern European countries. The slaughter involved six farms, following the...
Two more bodies have washed up on a New Zealand shoreline after a fishing boat capsized killing at least seven people, police say. Eleven people were on board the vessel. Three survivors were rescued...
The Ashanti Regional Fire Command has advised the public to adhere to basic fire safety principles to avert domestic and industrial fire outbreaks this harmattan season. The season is characterized...
Health authorities in the Cape Coast are still battling with cholera cases even as they attempt to ban food vending on the campus of the University of Cape Coast. Over 400 people have been affected...
Tropical Storm Otto continues to weaken as it heads into the Eastern Pacific. As Hurricane Otto, this storm hit the coast of Costa Rica and Nicaragua as a Category 2 storm on the five point...
The Chief Fire officer, Dr Albert Brown Gaisie, has cautioned personnel and volunteers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) over their approach in ensuring peace before, during and after the...
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of Israel's third largest city of Haifa. The fires follow a two-month drought and are being fanned by strong winds in...
A patient has sued six medical doctors, the 37 Military Hospital, the Attorney General and the Ghana Health Service for medical negligence. The action by the plaintiff, Mr Wisdom Tettey Narh, comes...
play videoRescue workers look for survivors after the collapse State media say the death toll from the collapse of scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China has jumped to 67, with two other...
Xinhua said the death toll was likely to rise because an unknown number of people were still trapped At least 40 people have been killed when a platform collapsed at a construction site in China's...
A section of the main road that links Akwamufie from the Adomi Bridge in the Eastern Region has caved in, rendering the road unmotorable. The asphalt on that section of the road, which is eight...
A convoy of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has been involved in a fatal crash which claimed the life of NDP chairman for the Offinso Constituency...
Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in the Offinso constituency in the Ashanti region, Isaac Mensah Afedzi has been pronounced dead after an accident involving the convoy of...
The Offinso Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Isaac Mensah Afedzi, has been reported dead after a vehicle he was travelling in as part of the convoy of the NDP...
One person is reported dead in the campaign convoy of the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings on the Techiman road in the Brong Ahafo...
A tsunami advisory is in effect for Japan's Fukushima and Miyagi Prefectures after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Honshu just before 6.00 a.m. Tuesday (4.00 p.m. Monday ET). Japanese...
Samsung has denied that devices in its Galaxy S7 range are affected by the same battery safety issue that forced it to kill off the Galaxy Note 7. In addition to the Note 7 disaster, there have been...
The death toll following the derailment of a train in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state has now passed 100, with more than 150 injured, police say. Fourteen carriages of the Indore-Patna Express...
At least 96 people have been killed after 14 carriages of an Indian express train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh state, police say. The incident took place on the Indore-Patna Express just after...
