The United States used depleted uranium anti-tank rounds on two occasions in 2015 during devastating air strikes against convoys of Islamic State tanker trucks, the Pentagon said Thursday. The...
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is concerned that the armyworm outbreak could spread to the whole of southern Africa, threatening crops. So far, seven of the 15...
The amount of sea ice at the Earth's poles fell to a record low for January, while the planet's temperatures last month were the third highest in modern times, US government scientists said Thursday....
The state of emergency has been in place since a November 2015 bombing A state of emergency imposed in Tunisia in 2015 to curb attacks by militant Islamists has been extended by three months, the...
An outbreak of armyworm caterpillars present in several southern African countries threatens to strip the entire region of key food supplies, warned the UN food agency Thursday. "It is probably only...
A critically endangered Bornean orangutan was shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, police and activists claim. Three men have been...
A 'scorpion' robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor to learn about the damage suffered in a tsunami-induced meltdown had its mission aborted after the probe ran into trouble, Tokyo Electric Power...
Hundreds of homes have been evacuated in the New Zealand city of Christchurch as a huge wildfire rages on its outskirts. One pilot died in a helicopter crash and least 11 homes have burned down. A...
Thousands of Mongolian herders face disastrous livestock losses from a dreaded severe weather phenomenon known as the "dzud", the Red Cross said Thursday in launching an international emergency aid...
Mozambique was battered by high winds, flooding and sea surges when cyclone Dineo made landfall late Wednesday but the storm has begun to die down, according to meteorologists Thursday. Dineo reached...
The Buipe bridge in the Northern Region will be closed to vehicular traffic and the traveling public from Friday, February 17th to Wednesday, 8th March 2017 for emergency repair works. A statement...
A critically endangered Bornean orangutan has been shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, police and activists said Thursday. Police...
A "scorpion" robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor to learn about the damage suffered in a tsunami-induced meltdown had its mission aborted after the probe ran into trouble, Tokyo Electric Power...
The Ghana Highway Authority has announced the closure of the Buipe Bridge in the Northern Region to vehicular traffic and the travelling public from Friday, February 17 to Wednesday, March 8, 2017 to...
A lawyer and management consultant, Mr Tom Mawusi, has expressed optimism of winning the Volta Region Council of State election. Mr Mawusi comes to the competition with a strong public sector...
The activities of a group of citizens in the Volta Region agitating for the secession of the region from Ghana is treasonable and should be dealt with by the National Security apparatus, the Volta...
Confidence in Ghana’s economy by its landlocked neighbours of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, coupled with improved security along trade corridors, has steadily pushed up transit trade figures over...
South African farmers are battling an alien armyworm invasion that has already caused devastation on their crops. The maize-destroying caterpillars have destroyed eight per cent of this farm....
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013, killing 79 people in January alone and spurring several cities to suspend live...
Mr Eric Kwakye Dafour, Minister-designate for Eastern region has stated that he would harness the human and material resources of the region for development. He said the region had been blessed with...
