Otumfuo Opens Kumasi City Mall Today
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II will today Wednesday 10 May cut a ribbon to officially open the Kumasi City Mall. The Asantehene is expected to unveil a plaque and name the food court. Other...
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Indian Shooters Stopped At Airport For Carrying Guns
India's national shooting team have been forced to spend the day at an airport after customs officials refused to allow them back into the country carrying guns and ammunition. The embarrassing gaffe...
Trump Fires FBI Chief James Comey
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the FBI over his handling of the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails, the administration says. The White House shocked Washington by announcing...
Mobile Phones Ring Changes For Nigeria’s Music Industry
Phizbarz is only 23 but hopes to become the next Nigerian Afropop star to be famous across Africa -- and to get himself known and earn a living, he's using his mobile phone. The young performer from...
Breastfeeding Aussie Senator In Political First
A Greens senator has made Australian political history by becoming the first person to breastfeed a baby in the nation's parliament. Larissa Waters returned to the upper house Senate for the first...
‘One Refused To Be Released’
The 82 girls were taken to Abuja to meet President Muhammadu Buhari after their rescue on Saturday One of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Islamist militants Boko Haram chose to stay with her husband...
US Teen Breaks Internet Record, Spurred By Love of Nuggets
An American teenager has broken the world record for the most retweets, in a crusade to win a year's supply of his favorite food: chicken nuggets. Beating out TV stars Ellen Degeneres and Kim...
Chicken Nugget Tweet Breaks Twitter Record
A tweet from a teenager asking a US fast food chain for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets has become the most retweeted ever. Carter Wilkerson’s plea broke Ellen DeGeneres’ record when he...
Chris Froome ‘rammed On Purpose’ By Car In France
Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome says he was unhurt after claiming to be “rammed” by a car driver while out training in southern France. The Briton, who rides for Team Sky, posted a...
I Could Write A Song For For MzVee and Ebony
Check out the titles she plans to give them. “I could write a song for MzVee and Ebony” says Manner Records signee Petrah. In an interview on Accra based Radio XYZ, the singer revealed she writes...
Car Bomb Hits Thailand’s Troubled South, Injures 51
More than 50 people including children were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, police said, the largest attack for months on a...
Meet Lionel Messi Lookalike From Iran
Lionel Messi, perhaps the world's most famous footballer, had to be escorted to a police station after stunned fans in Iran spotted him on the streets of the western city of Hamedan. However, all was...
Car Bomb Hits Thailand’s Troubled South, Injures 40
At least 40 people were wounded Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, police said, the largest attack for months on a civilian target in the...
Health of Nigeria’s President Stokes Governance Concerns
President Muhammadu Buhari had warned Nigerians when he returned from nearly two months of medical treatment in London that he was likely to have go back. On Sunday night, he did just that. But if...
10 South Korean Children Die In Fiery China Bus Crash
Ten South Korean kindergarten pupils and two others were killed when a school bus crashed and burst into flames in a tunnel in eastern China on Tuesday, officials and reports said. The children were...
Suspected Car Bombs Wound At Least 40 People In Pattani, Thailand
Dozens of people have been injured in a double bombing, believed to have been set off by Muslim separatists, in front of a supermarket in Thailand. The blasts happened in the southern city of Pattani...
Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings, Court Rules
A court in Austria has ordered that Facebook must remove postings seen as hate speech, in a ruling that is set to have international implications. The case was brought by the country’s Green Party...
Colombia’s ELN Rebels ‘kidnap Eight’ In Choco
The gunmen forced the hostages into a boat and took them deep into the jungle The Colombian government has accused the country's second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), of...
Paris Gare Du Nord Train Station Reopens After Security Alert
The Gare du Nord train station in the French capital Paris has reopened after a security alert, officials say. Platforms were evacuated and the area cordoned off by heavily armed police late on...
Pepe the Frog, Racist Hate Meme, Finally Croaks
Pepe the Frog, the cartoon character hijacked by the far right and turned into a symbol of racial hatred, has been killed off by its horrified creator. The cartoon amphibian started out life in 2005...