Jose Fernandez, a pitcher for the Miami Marlins baseball team, has died in a boat crash at the age of 24. The US Coast Guard said Fernandez was one of three people killed in the crash on Sunday, off...
A 7-person team of anti-corruption police officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) is currently in Nigeria to interview several associates and accomplices of former Petroleum Minister, Diezani...
President Ian Khama of Botswana said on Tuesday he had ordered the arrest and deportation of U. S. pastor Steven Anderson, who was banned from neighboring South Africa last week over his anti-gay...
A man suspected of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey is in custody after a shootout with police that began when he was found asleep in a doorway. Afghan-born Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, is...
A Ghanaian Professor based in the United States is questioning why the supposed non-partisan Speaker of Parliament in Ghana is allowing himself to be used for partisan activities. Prof Stephen Kwaku...
With about 200 species and more than 5,000 hybrids associated with the genus, hibiscus can be had in a rainbow of colors. Ghana stands a chance of becoming the next medical World Bank in alternative...
A Ghanaian Law Professor based in the United States is asking political parties to challenge in court the 2016 presidential and parliamentary filing fees announced by the Electoral Commission....
The presidential race may be tightening nationally, but Hillary Clinton still has the edge in the states she’ll need to win in November — including one previously rated as a toss-up by The...
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has apologised for calling half of Donald Trump's supporters "deplorable" people. But the Democrat launched a furious attack on her Republican opponent and...
South Africa is considering banning an openly homophobic American preacher from traveling to the country, as a war of words between the home affairs minister and the preacher broke out. Steven L....
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is known to transmit Zika virus The US Senate has failed to pass a funding bill to help fight the Zika virus for a third time. Senate Democrats blocked the $1.1bn (£820m)...
Hurricane Newton has felled trees and damaged power lines in western Mexico after making landfall near the popular resort of Cabo San Lucas on Tuesday. But it has caused only "minor damage in...
A huge storm bearing down on the Pacific coast of Mexico has strengthened to a hurricane just hours before it is due to make landfall. Hurricane Newton is heading north-west towards the southern end...
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...
U. S. authorities said Thursday they have identified the first batch of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus in Florida's Miami-Dade County, where the first locally transmitted cases of Zika in...
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...
US rap star Sean Kingston is in trouble with the jewel man again. This time he's being taken to court for apparently swerving his bill from another New York jewellery store. According to TMZ,...
Fort Hunk Park (area A) in Alexander, Virginia (US) will be set agog come September 17 as GaDangmes (natives from the Greater Accra Region in Ghana) in America celebrates their National Homowo...
Air Vice Marshal Michael Samson-Oje was born on 5 January 1954 at Damongo in the Northern Region. He attended Tamale Secondary School, also in the Northern Region, for his General Certificate of...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has selected Tim Kaine, a centrist senator from Virginia, as her running mate. Mrs Clinton broke the news in a tweet late on Friday. She plans a...
