Roads and Highways Minister, Alhaji Inusa Fuseni, has denied paying Ghana’s self-aclaimed dancehall king, Shatta Wale, a whopping GHC80,000 to perform at his campaign launch on Saturday in Tamale....
Arsenal legend Ian Wright has pleaded with long-serving manager Arsene Wenger to ignore reported overtures from England due to how much pressure he would be under. Wenger achieved a landmark 20 years...
Brexit: PM to trigger Article 50 by end of March Theresa May will formally begin the Brexit process by the end of March 2017, she has told the BBC. The PM's announcement on triggering Article 50 of...
A tax evasion amnesty in India has prompted tens of thousands of people to declare more than $9.5bn (£7.3bn) in undeclared income and assets. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said the four-month window...
In our series of letters from African journalists, Didi Akinyelure, the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award Winner, looks at a fresh crop of young, enterprising men and women who have more reason than...
Russia's increasing military action in Syria is forcing moderate elements within the Syrian opposition into the hands of extremists, a US state department spokesman has said. Mark Toner said renewed...
Ghanaian football legend, Abedi Pele, has denied reports on some online new portals that he has died after a short illness faraway in France. The report, on some unknown news websites, started making...
The Confederation of African Football president will be limited to three terms in office from next year's election in March 2017. Junior Binyam, Caf's media spokesman, confirmed to BBC Sport that the...
The US is trying to spare a Syrian jihadist group in case it is needed to unseat President Assad, the Russian foreign minister has told the BBC. Sergei Lavrov said the US had broken its promise to...
International prosecutors investigating the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 say the missile that hit the plane was fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed rebels. They...
Lawyer for Fadi Dabbousi, the Ghanaian-Lebanese author and pilot, detained by the Bureau of National investigations (BNI) over his ''59 Years to Nowhere'' book which criticises President Mahama's...
Excavations will begin on Monday at farmland on the Greek island of Kos in the hunt for missing Sheffield toddler Ben Needham. Ben was 21 months old when he disappeared on 24 July 1991 during a...
US golfer Arnold Palmer, viewed as one of the greatest players in the sport's history, has died at the age of 87. Palmer died at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he...
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos says the peace deal with the Farc rebel group will boost economic growth and will enable the country to rebuild its social fabric. "War is always more costly...
The former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund has told the BBC a slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy. Ken Rogoff said a calamitous "hard landing" for one of...
“Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live” (Haile Selassie 1, Emperor of Ethiopia). “Gandhi must be forgiven these prejudices in...
Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have released officer bodycam and dashcam footage of a controversial shooting of a black man on Tuesday. They also released pictures of a handgun and marijuana...
Samson Siasia, Nigeria's former under-23 coach, has given the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) a two-week ultimatum to settle its debt to him. Siasia says the NFF owes him five months' salary...
Ugandan police have blocked gay pride celebrations from happening in two resorts outside the capital, Kampala. Gay rights activist Frank Mugisha said more than 100 LGBTI people tried to participate...
Three women have been shot dead and a man critically injured at a shopping centre in Burlington, Washington state. Police have released a picture of the suspected gunman, who fled the scene armed...
