The number of illegal miners trapped in collapsed pit at Nsuta in the Western region has shot up to 17 from the original number of 14 that was earlier reported. This was confirmed by one of the...
The death toll from a blast at a Bangladesh garment factory has risen to 10 after two victims died in hospital, authorities said Tuesday, warning there could be more casualties. Dozens of workers...
Torrential rains that fell in the Ashanti Region on Sunday has caused a lot of havoc, exposing the daunting task facing government of Ghana in fighting floods. The rains, which started from about...
A typhoon slammed into Japan on Tuesday, grounding dozens of flights, injuring at least three people and prompting authorities to issue evacuation warnings on fears of landslides and floods. Typhoon...
THE news that the Ghana National Fire Service (GNSF) cannot fight fire on high-rise buildings in this country set many Ghanaians thinking, including Today newspaper. ESPECIALLY so, when this was...
An AirAsia flight to Malaysia was forced to return to Australia shortly after take-off following a suspected bird strike, the carrier said Tuesday, the second incident involving the airline in the...
Rescuers in Ghana are racing against time to find 14 missing miners trapped after an illegal pit collapsed in the country's south officials said Monday. Police said they are still searching for...
The Greater Accra National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Director, Archibold Cobbina, has launched a cleanup exercise, dubbed “Operation Prevent Disaster” in Greater Accra at...
African Union head Moussa Faki Mahamat on Monday criticised member states for a lack of solidarity shown to nations on the continent who are facing famine and drought. His comments came as heads of...
Venus Williams broke down in tears during a Wimbledon press conference on Monday when she was asked about her involvement in a fatal car crash. Williams is being sued by the estate of an elderly...
Venus Williams was able to focus on Wimbledon despite her involvement in a recent fatal car crash as the five-time champion beat Elise Mertens 7-6 (9/7), 6-4 in the first round on Monday. Williams is...
A team of navy personnel have moved in to rescue the market women whose boats were capsized on the Bui Reservoir last Friday June 30. Official report from the Bui Power Authority (BPA), managers of...
At least 14 persons are feared dead when a mining pit collapsed on them on Sunday in the Western Region. The Nsuta District Police Command confirmed that the trapped were among 19 miners when the...
The National Treasurer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Akane Adams, says the management of energy-sector think-tank, Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), must be invited by the...
Many people were killed when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a truck on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday, the German government said. “Unfortunately numerous...
The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan last month has risen to at least 205 people, government officials said Monday, as more victims succumbed to their injuries. The tanker...
More than a thousand people took part Monday in an evacuation exercise triggered by a simulated volcanic eruption endangering Goma, a major city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. At 7:30...
A major disaster is looming on the main Obuasi–Anhwia-Nkwanta road as the only bridge on the stretch is falling apart. The bridge constructed over 60 years ago is the only major bridge on that...
Rainstorms have triggered floods across central and southern China, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and leaving more than two dozen dead or missing, state media reported...
Eight people were killed after an Indonesian search and rescue helicopter crashed, a senior official said Monday, the latest aviation accident in the country. The Indonesian Search and Rescue...
