The family of the only person ever convicted of the bombing of an airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 lodged a new bid Tuesday to appeal against his conviction posthumously. Lawyer...
A top officer aboard the US Navy's largest warship, which is deployed in the eastern Mediterranean, said Monday his forces were wary of "tensions" and ready to strike allies of Syria's regime. The...
Liberty Professionals defender, Samuel Sarfo, is getting a lot of attention not necessarily because he is a good player but because of his other profession. The player is a Constable with the...
Two suspected rebels were killed and a civilian was critically wounded in a shootout with government forces in Indian Kashmir on Monday, police said, as tensions in the disputed territory ran high. A...
A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive liquid, Indian police said Sunday. The 35-year-old mother, who was allegedly gangraped in...
A new association that seeks to protect and promote the interest of wholesale importers, exporters and shop owners, has been formed. The new trade union called the Wholesalers Importers Shop Owners...
Family of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has visited Denkyira-Obuasi to see where the Army officer was killed one month ago. Among those who went were the mother, father, brother and some family...
Iraq declared the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was coming to an end after it recaptured Mosul's iconic Nuri mosque Thursday, three years to the day after it was proclaimed by the jihadists. The...
NATO will increase troop numbers in Afghanistan to help train local forces facing a resurgent Taliban but will not return to a combat role, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday. The...
NATO allies will increase troop numbers in Afghanistan to help the government battle a resurgent Taliban but there is no question of returning to a combat role, the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is blunt. When he wanted to make a political statement about crackdowns on dissent, he brought portraits of 176 political prisoners to one of America's most infamous...
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has been attacked by grenades dropped from a helicopter in what President Nicolás Maduro called a “terrorist attack”. Footage on social media shows a police...
Business activities are grinding to a halt at Assin Praso in the Assin North Municipality of the Central Region following a faulty transformer in the community. Assin Praso, a major commercial town...
A Chicago prosecutor on Tuesday charged three former and current police officers with concealing the truth about the fatal shooting of a black teenager three years ago. David March, Joseph Walsh and...
Syria's former defence minister Mustafa Tlass, a close friend of President Bashar al-Assad's father and predecessor Hafez, died in Paris on Tuesday, his son Firas said. He was 85. Tlass, whose other...
The US Supreme Court gave new hope Monday to the family of a Mexican boy shot on the American frontier, ordering a lower court to reconsider their lawsuit against the border patrol agent who killed...
The family of a black motorist fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer, whose dying moments were livestreamed on Facebook, said Monday it had reached a nearly $3 million civil settlement with the...
Myanmar and Thailand started torching nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as law enforcement struggles to stem the rising flow of drugs in the region. The...
They all say they are back from "hell". Quivering and emaciated, the civilians emerging from Mosul's Old City have survived famine but often lost relatives and sometimes their sanity. They come in...
Thai authorities on Saturday detained an activist attempting to mark the 1932 revolution that ended absolute monarchy, police said, a historical event that has become increasingly taboo under an...
