As part of efforts to decongest the prisons, three judges Friday sat at the Nsawam Prison and heard the cases of some inmates who have been on remand for years. The Chief Justice (CJ), Mrs Georgina...
The Chief Justice Georgina T. Wood on Friday May 5, 2017 announced that she will retire in the next four weeks with a promise to fight for Prisoners Rights in her new life after 47 years of public...
A farmer has been arrested in the Central region for attempting to enter the regional Police headquarters with a gun. According to StarrFMonline.com sources, the 48-year-old Kwabena Nyarko had...
The late MP was stabbed to death in his room at his Shiashie residence in 2016 An Accra High Court has set 16 May 2017 for selection of jurors for the trial of Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu,...
The Justice For All (JFA) programme of the Judicial Service of Ghana has pitched its tents at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison where the programme is expected to hear some 48 applications with a...
A man who murdered his wife at Akwaboso near Diaso in the Central Region of Ghana, and fled to the Ashanti Region, has been killed by a mob. The 54-year-old Kweku Efo was said to have murdered the...
Sri Lanka's foreign minister on Friday accused the previous administration of using its embassies abroad as "safe houses" for murderers accused of perpetrating human rights abuses during the civil...
The four men convicted of a fatal 2012 gang rape of a Delhi student had their death sentences upheld in India's top court Friday, for an attack that shocked the world and led to tough new penalties...
Uber has been criticised many times over the way it runs its business Ride-sharing firm Uber is facing a criminal investigation by the US government. The scrutiny has started because the firm is...
The Accra Circuit Court has, for the second time, denied bail to four persons alleged to have robbed the Founder and Leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor. The accused persons...
A worker at the mining company was buried alive while drilling after a pit caved in The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has ordered Shanxii Mining Ghana Limited to stop...
A 48-year-old farmer who attempted to enter the Central Regional Police headquarters in Cape Coast with a locally-manufactured pistol with three live cartridges has been arrested by the Police....
Harry Jarvis was convicted of his wife's murder in 2011 Harry Jarvis, a prisoner at HMP Addiewell, was convicted at Edinburgh High Court on 30 March 2011. The 67-year-old murdered his wife Carol...
India's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men convicted for the 2012 gang rape and murder of a Delhi student. Justice Dipak Misra said the 23-year-old woman had suffered a...
A third Turkish national has been arrested in Malaysia, his lawyer said Friday, after two others were taken into custody this week on suspicion of funding the Islamic State group. Turkish academic...
The career of Australia's most decorated shooter Michael Diamond appears to have come to an end after a court found him guilty of firearms and drink-driving offences, and banned him from holding a...
The US government is investigating Uber for the use of secret software called Greyball that allows it to operate in areas where it is banned or restricted, says the Washington Post The US government...
Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman will remain in solitary confinement in a New York City prison, a US judge ruled Thursday, although he will be allowed to send pre-screened messages to his...
A US judge granted limited relaxations Thursday to the stringent custody conditions of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and allowed him to write to his beauty queen wife. The 60-year-old,...
Former President John Dramani Mahama has charged leaders to be accountable to citizens in order to build trust in public institutions. He explained that citizens are entitled to know what public...
