A handsome "chai wala" (tea seller) in Pakistan has seen his life change overnight after a picture of him at work swept the internet. Arshad Khan, 18, was photographed pouring tea at Islamabad's...
The political campaign season is here with us again. An apparent struggle to determine who controls the states resources and who determines who gets what, when and how for the next 4 years of...
This year marks the centenary of the creation of the legendary Trans-Siberian railway of Russia. By an ironic twist of fate, this falls right in the middle of an epochal change in geopolitical and...
This is not magic...When a country does not have enough primary care physicians, or nurses, or specialists... it helps to first prevent the spread of germs, diseases... Not too long ago, a driver's...
1.3 million Kenyans in 23 counties are in need of food aid - Report Despite the progress Kenya has made in reducing hunger, it is among 50 countries where levels of hunger remain serious or alarming,...
The Vice Chairman of the Constitutional and Legal Committees of Parliament, George Loh, has accused the opposition in Parliament (Minority) of deliberately delaying the passage of the Right To...
A former Director General of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, has called on poultry farmers to institute a recommended retail price for eggs to make it affordable to...
On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, a Kenya Airways employee in charge of treasury and controls, received the first of several payments from the collapsed Dubai Bank — $20,000. By the end of June of...
The contents of a newspaper column written by Boris Johnson urging Britain to stay in the EU have been revealed. According to a new book on the EU referendum campaign, he declared: "Britain is a...
India on Saturday made it clear to China that they cannot afford to have differences on the issue of terrorism and that no country is immune from the menace, a significant statement that comes...
Full statement of PM Modi’s speech at the 17th India-Russia annual summit With the BRICS summit starting in Goa on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the coastal state after a...
I have been studiously following the controversy and heated debate swirling around the erection and/or installing of the life-size statue of India’s independence movement icon and legendary civil...
A corruption investigation expected to contain damning allegations against South African President Jacob Zuma will not be published on Friday, as planned. Thuli Mandonsela, who has hounded Mr Zuma in...
Ghana will move a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from its main university because of his “alleged past racist comments”, the foreign ministry said, while paying tribute to Gandhi’s role as a civil...
A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected...
Singer Janet Jackson has officially confirmed she is expecting her first child, at the age of 50. She told People magazine: “We thank God for our blessing”, and posed for a picture with her...
In August 1914, a joint force of Britain and France conquered German Togoland. This conquest was remarkable because it was the first Allied victory over Germany in the First World War. German...
By Sammy Darko The first queen of England, Queen Elizabeth was regarded as too controversial for mainly three reasons; the fact that she was a woman had the people doubt her ability to rule, her...
The Coalition of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill on Tuesday, 11 October picketed parliament as the house resumed from recess. This is in a bid to bring pressure to bear on the lawmakers to...
One girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds, according to a new report by Save the Children. The study says girls as young as 10 are forced to marry much older men in countries...
