Florida Coast Battered By Hurricane Hermine
Tropical storm Hermine has made landfall in northern Florida, becoming the first hurricane to hit the state in 11 years. Hermine hit the Florida Gulf Coast early on Friday as a category one...
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Explosion At Kennedy Space Center Ahead of Launch
There has been an explosion on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the aerospace company SpaceX was readying an unmanned rocket for launch. The cause of the blast is not...
Fire Guts Labadi Beach Hotel
Ghana Fire Services personnel arrived at the scene to quench the blaze Fire has gutted parts of Labadi Beach Hotel, Starrfmonline.com has gathered. According to sources, the inferno began in the...
Demonstrators Set Gabon Parliament On Fire
Libreville (AFP) - Gabon's national assembly was set ablaze Wednesday evening by angry protestors who took to the streets after an announcement that President Ali Bongo had been re-elected, witnesses...
Gabon Security Forces Attempt To Storm Opposition HQ
Libreville (AFP) - Gabon security forces were attempting to storm the opposition headquarters early Thursday, leaving several people injured, party leader Jean Ping told AFP, hours after President...
Shannon Airport Emergency Landing
The emergency landing followed 'severe and unexpected turbulence', said United Airlines Sixteen people have been injured after turbulence prompted a transatlantic flight to make an emergency landing...
Number of People In Need of Food Assistance Grows In North-Eastern Nigeria
The number of people in need of food assistance in north-eastern Nigeria has risen to 4.5 million, nearly twice as many as in March, according to a mid-August analysis (Cadre Harmonisé) by various...
Africa Stands In Solidarity With Italy
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has sent her deep condolences to the Government and people of Italy, and the European Union following the earthquake on 24...
Fuel Gushes Out of Underground Tanks At Ashaiman
Residents of Ashaiman close to the main bus terminal are said to be living in fear after fuel from a Total fuel station, started gushing out when water seeped into the underground storage tank...
Pregnant Woman, 8 Others Perish As Boat Capsizes
Nine people, including a pregnant woman, drowned when the boat they were travelling in capsized on the Dakar river in the Northern Region. The police confirmed to Citi News that only four of the...
Four Injured In Suhum Gas Explosion
Four people have been injured in a gas explosion at Suhum in the Eastern region. The incident occurred in the neighborhood of a police residence. It is unclear what caused the explosion. The MCE for...
Countryman Songo Performs At Fire For Fire Gala
Host of Fire for Fire show on Asempa FM/Multi TV, Patrick Osei Agyemang, Countryman Songo became the toast of participants of the 3rd edition of the Fire for Fire Gala. Organised at the Carl Reindolf...
TV’s Ice Road Truckers Driver Dies In Plane Crash
Darrell Ward, one of the long-haul drivers made famous on TV's Ice Road Truckers, has been killed in a plane crash at the age of 52. Ward, from Montana, has been one of the featured drivers for the...
Safety Rules Don’t Apply To Presidential Motorcades – Police
The Commander of the Motor Traffic Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Patrick Adusei Sarpong has announced that road safety rules are not applicable to presidential...
Five Held Over Brussels Crime Lab Fire
A vehicle was used to break through barriers before it was destroyed by fire Five people have been arrested over a fire at crime laboratories in Brussels that officials believe may have been started...
Fire Guts Tepa EC Office
The Electoral Commission (EC) office at Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North district of the Ashanti Region has been razed down by fire. Properties worth millions of Ghana cedis were burnt to ashes on Monday...
Bomb Blast Hits Crime Laboratory
A bomb has gone off at the Brussels Institute of Criminology, without causing casualties, Belgian media say. Shortly before 02:30 local time (00:30 GMT), a car rammed through three fences, RTL...
2 Killed, 41 Injured In Louisiana Bus Accident
Two people were killed and 41 others injured on Sunday after a bus crashed into a fire truck in the state of Louisiana. The accident occurred on Interstate 10 near LaPlace, a city about 40 km west of...
Injured Journalists In Veep’s Convoy Accident Discharged
Four persons including two journalists, GTV’s Nutor Bibini Nutor and Radio Gold’s Bernard Allotey and two security men, who sustained minor injuries in vice presidential convoy accident have been...
Gas Explosion Kills 9, Injures Many In Bole
At least nine people are reported dead in a gas explosion accident at the Tinga market in the Bole district of the Northern Region. The explosion also injured several others who have been taken to...