A nationwide programme has been outlined by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to curb the increasing number of domestic fire outbreaks, especially in vulnerable communities. Per the programme,...
A four-year-old boy has been burnt to death in a fire outbreak at a house in Tarkwa in the Western Region. The boy, Walid Mohammed, said to be sick, was left in a room by his father who was taking...
One hundred and seventeen people were killed while 456 sustained injuries in road accidents in the Western Region in 2016. The Regional Police Command recorded 60 robbery cases in 2016 as against 56...
A four-year-old boy has been burnt to death in a fire outbreak at a house in Tarkwa in the Western Region. The boy, Walid Mohammed, said to be sick, was left in a room by his father who was taking...
The Federal Aviation Administration will not pursue enforcement action against actor Harrison Ford after he mistakenly landed a small plane on a taxiway at a Southern California airport, his attorney...
A mother and her two children have drowned after their car plunged into floodwaters in Australia. Their bodies were recovered from a swollen New South Wales (NSW) river on Tuesday following...
The bodies of a "hero" mother and her two young children were pulled from a river in Australia Tuesday as the death toll rose from cyclone-fuelled floods that devastated parts of the country. At...
PRESIDENT Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the weekend embarked on a three-day tour of the Ashanti Region to thank the people of the region for their support during last year’s election which won his...
Hollywood star Harrison Ford is to avoid punishment over a near-miss at a California airport as he was piloting his private plane, his lawyer told AFP on Monday. Ford, a seasoned pilot and vintage...
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck the southern African nation of Botswana on Monday, US seismologists said, with the tremor felt in several neighbouring countries. The epicentre of...
In fresh evidence about the dangers of coal pollution, a scientist on Monday said a switch to coal-fired power in a southern US state after a nuclear accident in 1979 led to a sharp fall in...
A commuter train derailed at New York's Penn Station on Monday, lightly injuring four people in the second such incident in 10 days, officials said. The train from Trenton came off the tracks at 9:00...
A man has admitted causing the deaths of two cousins by careless driving in a hit-and-run crash on New Year's Eve. Zaneta Krokova, 11, and Helina Kotlarova, 12, were holding hands when they were...
At least 10 people killed in explosions at St Petersburg At least 10 people have been killed in an explosion in an underground station in St Petersburg, Russian media report. The Tass and Interfax...
An explosion has hit an underground station in the city of St Petersburg, Russian media report. The Tass and Interfax agencies reported a blast at the Sennaya Ploshchad metro station, which left a...
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia has fallen sharply in recent years Somali pirates have hijacked an Indian cargo ship off the coast of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, officials there say. One...
Colombia's Farc rebel group has offered to help rebuild a town devastated by landslides that killed at least 254 people. But their involvement in efforts in Mocoa, in the country's south-west, has to...
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have enough vaccine doses to deal with a deadly meningitis outbreak because they are...
A private company, the Road Safety Management Service Limited (RSMSL), has received the green light to implement a national towing project in May this year. The project is a scheme developed by the...
