Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted killing suspected criminals during his time as mayor of Davao City. "In Davao, I used to do it personally. Just to show the guys that,...
A picture of Eiffel Tower in Paris after it went dark for the Earth Hour environmental campaign Paris will turn off the famed lights of the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday as a gesture of solidarity with...
A woman suspended after calling First Lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” in a Facebook post is set to return to work in West Virginia, local media say. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local...
It was prophesied, predicted, forecast, fought for, awaited and long sought. Finally, it has arrived. Change has been pronounced that the next pilot for the motherland plane, captain of the...
Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson has met President-elect Donald Trump amid growing speculation that he is being considered for US secretary of state. NBC News quotes sources close to Mr Trump as saying...
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Friday he had removed his name from consideration for a position in Donald Trump's new administration as the president-elect narrows the field of people he...
US President-elect Donald Trump is expected to appoint another Goldman Sachs executive to his administration. Despite vilifying the Wall Street bank while campaigning, he is tipped to pick Goldman...
Accra Mayor Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije has won the Ablekuma South parliamentary contest. Mr Vanderpuije, who stood on the ticket of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) got 19, 984 votes...
Ben Carson will be nominated as the next secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Trump transition team announced Monday. "I am thrilled to nominate Dr. Ben Carson as our...
Former Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Samuel Sarpong, has condemned the two women who recently invoked curses on the Electoral commission and its chairperson, Mrs Charlotte Osei. On December 1, 2016...
As the 2016 polls draw near political parties are drawing up strategies to police the ballot at the polling station level. While the NPP has been asking its supporters to vote and stay to “guard”...
It is particularly difficult to foretell what the foreign policy of a US president-elect will be. We have plenty of examples of US presidents who – after coming into office – did not follow...
The leaders of four major global cities say they will stop the use of all diesel powered cars and trucks by the middle of the next decade. The mayors of Paris, Mexico City, Madrid and Athens say they...
President-elect Donald Trump, who raged against the elite as a candidate, is populating his administration with the ultra-rich. On Wednesday, he named billionaire Wilbur Ross, who has made a fortune...
U. S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to step back from running his business empire to avoid conflicts of interest, while turning to Wall Street for nominees for two key economic...
At least 12 people, almost all of them schoolchildren, have been killed after a fire broke out in a girls' dormitory in Turkey's southern province of Adana, according to the local governor. The fire,...
The Ashanti Youth Association (AYA) has condemned what it describes as gross disrespect shown to the Manhyia Palace and the President during the one-week observation of the late Asantehemaa....
Deporting criminals is one area where President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump agree. Donald Trump has vowed to kick off his presidency by swiftly kicking out one segment of the...
A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia, officials say. Reports say there are six survivors. The plane...
Trump to name Georgia lawmaker Tom Price as health secretary President-elect Donald Trump is set to announce on Tuesday that he has chosen Republican U. S. Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic...
