Ahmad Khan Rahami, the 28-year-old suspect in the bombings in New York City and New Jersey over the weekend, was taken into custody after a shootout with police in Linden, N. J., on Monday morning,...
The name Major Seth Anthony would not be familiar to many Ghanaians – one of the lapses in our educational system. A system that not only treats the teaching of history with contempt, but even...
The name Major Seth Anthony would not be familiar to many Ghanaians – one of the lapses in our educational system. A system that not only treats the teaching of history with contempt, but even...
Militants have attacked an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing at least 17 soldiers, the army says. Four of the attackers were killed, an army officer told the BBC. Carrying guns and...
HI Dad. No need to reprimand me, I am sorry I haven't kept this yearly ritual, but let me see if I can redeem myself a little with this letter. So much I would like to share and discuss with you but...
Nigeria has emerged as one of the countries at greater risk of Zika virus transmission. According to a new study published yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, many countries across Africa...
A leader and major financial backer of the biggest Islamist party in Bangladesh has been executed for war crimes in 1971, officials say. Media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali, 63, of the Jamaat-e-Islami party,...
At least 12 people were killed and 40 wounded when two bomb blasts went off at a district court in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. A suicide bomber threw a hand grenade at police guards before...
The Ghana Medical and Dental Council has inducted 176 newly-qualified doctors of the School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), at a ceremony in Kumasi....
By Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK August 19, 2016 The headline “Bishop Obinim whips teenage members for fornication” appeared on Ghanaweb on Thursday morning but did not read it as news on undesirable,...
People gather near the bodies of victims of the blast at a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan A bomb blast has killed 42 people at a hospital in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan, police...
The son of Usama bin Laden warned that Al Qaeda would take revenge against the U.S. for assassinating his father in 2011, according to audio released by the terror network's media arm.
The audio was...
Sierra Leone, one of the countries in West Africa which has been plagued by wars in the last decade is now the second most peaceful country in West Africa and has overtaken Ghana to become the most...
One of Pakistan’s powerful governing bodies, the Council of Islamic Ideology, has put together a 160-page draft that recommends that husbands should be able to beat their wives "lightly" if they...
Ghana's Minister of Power, Kwabena Donkor signed a deal with Umar Farooq Zahoor from Oslo who is wanted by Norwegian, Swiss police and Interpol for spectacular acts of fraud committed within the last...
Facebook’s decision to implement its “safety check” feature for the attacks in Paris, but not after bomb blasts in Beirut a day earlier, has prompted debate online. Critics of the site accused...
Foreigners looking to buy property in Ghana will face some restrictions. Land ownership in particular is tightly regulated, with non-nationals able to acquire lands on a leasehold for a maximum...
The world’s middle class is growing. According to Pew Research Center, 63 million people entered Latin America’s middle class over the last decade; it is estimated that Nigeria’s middle class...
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of...
