The trial of US comedian and actor Bill Cosby for sexual assault has begun in Pennsylvania. Former university employee Andrea Constand alleges he drugged and molested her in 2004. Mr Cosby, 79, says...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has left Ghana to attend meetings of the United Nation’s Advocacy Group of Eminent Personalities on the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in Belgium...
President Donald Trump may have torpedoed the Paris climate accord as US diplomats brace for huge cuts to their environmental programs. But on Monday, American officials joined world diplomats wading...
Qatari planes are to be banned from Egyptian and Saudi air space, as a growing diplomatic row in the Gulf threatens large-scale air disruption. Several countries have cut ties with the tiny Gulf...
Bill Cosby has been accused by more than 50 women of sexual assault -- and the sheer weight of that number has led to crushing condemnation in the court of public opinion. But when he faces a court...
A disgruntled US employee walked back into the factory that fired him and fatally shot five ex-colleagues, before killing himself, police say. John Robert Neumann, 45, was armed with a semi-automatic...
A US government contractor has been arrested on suspicion of leaking top-secret information to a news outlet. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, allegedly removed classified material from a government...
Through a drumbeat of almost daily scoops and leaks, The Washington Post and The New York Times have emerged as the titans of news in the age of President Donald Trump. Michael Flynn, the general who...
Over the past couple of years, YouTube has undeniably become a growing force in Africa. Indeed, YouTube reported in a company blog post that “the number of hours of video content in Africa being...
A top secret US report showing that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year's presidential election raised new alarms Monday about...
Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Sunday delivered a speech at the commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the June 4, 1979, uprising in Wa. In the speech the leader of the June 4, 1979,...
The top career diplomat at the US embassy in China has stepped down, an American official in Beijing confirmed Tuesday, amid suggestions that he opposes President Donald Trump's climate policy....
US President Donald Trump wants to privatise air traffic control operations, creating a not-for-profit company to oversee functions now handled by the federal government. The White House on Monday...
Two people have been arrested over a warehouse fire last year in Oakland, California, that left 36 people dead. Derick Almena and Max Harris are facing multiple counts of involuntary manslaughter. Mr...
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has excluded three players from his squad ahead of the trip to Kumasi for Sunday's 2019 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia. The Black Stars have spent the past...
Donald Trump will not use presidential powers to prevent ex-FBI director James Comey from testifying to Congress Thursday, the White House said, setting the stage for potentially explosive testimony...
The owner of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia said on Monday a longtime friend had robbed him of more than 100 items, including rare vintage US and foreign carded action figures. Steve...
The United States on Monday urged the United Nations to establish a special investigation into the murder of two UN experts who had been gathering evidence of mass graves in the Democratic Republic...
The US tourism industry faces the possibility of another "lost decade" of foreign visitors due to President Donald Trump's travel ban, a leading hotel executive said Monday. Jonathan Tisch, chief...
A US-led coalition air strike killed 21 civilians on Monday as they tried to escape the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The civilians were...
