European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker dispatched the EU's top trade officials to Tokyo Thursday for crucial talks to seal a long-awaited deal with Japan. After four years of talks the two...
US-backed forces cut off the last escape route for the Islamic State group from Raqa on Thursday, a monitor said, trapping the besieged jihadists inside their de facto Syrian capital. Fighters with...
The White House envoy to the US-led coalition bombing the Islamic State group, Brett McGurk, met on Thursday with local officials in the northern Syrian town of Tabqa. IS jihadists were ousted from...
South Africa's ruling ANC party will look to "self-correct" at a six-day meeting starting Friday, a senior official said after a series of bruising scandals and fierce criticism of President Jacob...
Indian billionaire Anand Mahindra said he was not brave enough to take on debt-laden Air India after the government said it would privatise the ailing national carrier. Air India, known as the...
An 80-year-old Chinese woman delayed a domestic flight from Shanghai this week for nearly six hours after throwing coins into an engine of the plane supposedly for good luck. Shanghai police later...
All Blacks fullback Ben Smith has been ruled out of the remaining two Tests in the British and Irish Lions series because of concussion, coach Steve Hansen confirmed Thursday. Smith left the field...
Lebanon's government says a dam planned for a valley near Beirut is vital to tackle chronic water shortages, but the location on a seismic fault line has raised fears among residents. "How can you...
The euro extended its run higher against the dollar Wednesday, hitting a one-year high, while tech and bank stocks helped Wall Street reverse a sell-off in the prior session. The euro rose close to...
Stanbic Bank has thrilled over one hundred International Private Banking customers at an exclusive event at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, Accra. Dubbed: The ‘Cognac and Champagne with Chocolate...
Asian migrants working as domestic staff and farmers are stranded in Saudi Arabia -- potentially illegally -- after their Qatari bosses were ordered out of the kingdom, a rights group said Wednesday....
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has rejected BOST’s position that there is no off-spec oil on the market, insisting that its Executive Director’s personal experience with...
Barack Obama took his wife and daughters to the ancient Borobudur temple on Java on Wednesday on a family vacation to Indonesia, where the former US president spent part of his childhood. The Obamas...
Kenyan literary icon Ngugi wa Thiong'o, often tipped for the Nobel literature prize, has pulled out of an annual Swedish book fair in protest at the presence of a right-wing extremist newspaper, his...
The Minority in Parliament has called for a full scale investigation into issues surrounding the sale of five million substandard petroleum product onto the Ghanaian market. There have since been...
Team New Zealand will "do the right thing" in formulating the next America's Cup, chief executive Grant Dalton vowed after the Kiwis' stunning victory over Team USA plunged the sailing world into...
One of the oldest mission schools in the Koforidua Municipality, Presby Junior High School ‘A’, has held its first ever graduation ceremony. The colourful event, held on Wednesday, 21st June,...
The Director of the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEDC), Dr. Steve Manteaw wants Ghana to be “cautiously optimistic” with China’s intention to commit to $15 billion into Ghana’s...
A sum of $2 million was sent to the 10-year-old daughter of a FIFA official prior to Qatar being awarded the hosting of the 2022 World Cup, according to Bild. The German daily is publishing from...
Leading cocoa buying company in Ghana, ECOM Global Cocoa, has set aside a GHC1.4 million sponsorship package for the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Mobile Learning Project. The mobile learning...
