Fire has engulfed the warehouse of Kingdom Books and Stationery close of the Free Zones Enclave at Prampram in the Greater Accra region. The cause of the fire is yet to be known. Residents around...
Hundreds of residents of a small Japanese coastal town took part in an evacuation drill Sunday as fears grow that a North Korean missile could hit the country. The drill in the town of Abu, about 800...
A memorial service has been held for victims of the June 3 twin disaster which happened at the Goil fuel station near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra. Over 150 lives were lost on June 3,...
Mr. Herbert Mensah; President of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), has expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the June 3rd 2015 flood and fire victims. According to M. Mensah,...
Yemeni government forces fought Saturday to capture a rebel-held presidential palace in the southwestern province of Taez after clashes that killed 27 people, medics and military sources said. Most...
Explosions Saturday rocked the funeral ceremony of an Afghan man killed during protests over the worsening security situation in the capital Kabul, witnesses said, reporting multiple casualties....
Ahead of the second anniversary of the June 3 fire and flood disaster today , Reverend Joyce Aryee has bemoaned the failings of Ghanaian society that contributed to what has become known as one of...
Sri Lanka announced plans Saturday to prosecute a slew of companies and individuals behind illegal construction projects blamed for landslides and flooding that have killed at least 211 people...
Fifteen children died in South Sudan after receiving contaminated measles vaccines that had not been properly refrigerated, and were mixed using the same syringe for four days. In addition to the...
Waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday cleaned the site where the June 3 twin disaster occurred at the Goil filling...
Fifteen children died in a South Sudanese village last month after being administered with contaminated measles vaccines, the country's health minister said Friday. During the vaccination of 300...
The Bangladesh navy said Friday it has rescued 24 more fishermen from the Bay of Bengal, bringing the total to 80 since a cyclone pounded the country's coastline three days ago. Two naval vessels...
Farmers in Ziope in the Volta Region are counting their losses following an evasion of army worms in their farms. The pests have eaten deep into the stalks and bitten into the leaves of the crops...
Roads turned into rivers in northern Taiwan Friday as rain lashed the island, with rescuers helping residents evacuate as they struggled against the torrents. Cars, homes and businesses were left...
A bus fire that killed 11 kindergarteners in eastern China last month was intentionally set by their disgruntled driver, who was angry at losing overtime wages, authorities said Friday. The driver...
In Japan, where train travel can often be a perilous ordeal for women, an insurance company is reporting a sudden run on a policy that protects men falsely accused of groping. The spike in takers for...
The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has stated that government will not allow security and public safety to deteriorate to uncontrollable levels. Mr. Dery’s assurance comes after widespread concern...
Two air traffic control officers accused of causing a plane crash in Taiwan that killed 49 people in 2014, the island's worst air disaster for a decade, were acquitted Friday. The TransAsia Airways...
The daughter of a South Korean tycoon blamed for the deadly 2014 Sewol ferry disaster will be extradited on Tuesday from France, a source close to the case said. Yoo Som-Na was detained in Paris in...
A dire lack of aid funds in the strife-torn Central African Republic risks leaving a vacuum that armed groups will fill, dashing hopes of peace, the UN said Thursday. Aid workers have already been...
