Ecobank has announced the finalists in the ‘Ecobank Fintech Challenge,’ a competition for African technology start-ups. The list includes 20 innovators from across the continent. The startups...
Two US astronauts embarked Tuesday on what NASA described as a "critical" spacewalk to repair a failed piece of equipment that helps power the International Space Station. The spacewalk by NASA's...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned the terror attack on Manchester Arena in the UK that has claimed 22 lives and injured 59 others including children. A lone male suicide attacker...
Minister of Energy Boakye Agyarko has dismissed suggestions that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will be privatized under Compact II of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). He explained...
Ford Motor Co (F. N) abruptly named James Hackett as chief executive on Monday, responding to investors’ growing unease about the U.S. automaker’s slumping stock price and its ability to counter...
Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo has condemned the terror attack in Manchester, resulting in the deaths of 22 people and injuries to 59. The blast happened at 22:35 BST on Monday at the end of a...
World’s third penis transplant has been successfully performed on a 40-year-old man in South Africa by doctors from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Tygerberg Academic Hospital in Cape Town....
Philippine security forces hunting one of the world's most-wanted Islamist militants were battling gunmen in a southern city on Tuesday, authorities said. Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the infamous...
US-led air strikes on Syria killed a total of 225 civilians over the past month, a monitor said on Tuesday, the highest 30-day toll since the campaign began in 2014. The Syrian Observatory for Human...
A Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded a border policeman in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on Tuesday before being shot and wounded, police said. The attack came as US President Donald Trump...
The US Ambassador, Robert Jackson, has launched the 2017 Primary School Insecticide-Treated Nets distribution campaign. The launch was on Monday, May 22 at the Southern LEKMA Cluster of Schools in...
Bahraini police opened fire Tuesday on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, with at least one demonstrator reported dead in the latest unrest to hit the Sunni-ruled Gulf state. The...
Ghanaian celebrity lawyer, Sandra Ankorbiah has been featured on Morgan Lewis’ online platform as one of the young emerging women leaders of the world. Morgan Lewis & Bockius is a global law...
Starr FM’s Anita Erskine has won the coveted title of Female Radio Presenter of the year in the just ended Ghana Entertainment Awards in the USA. Erskine, who is one half of Accra’s most...
China's imports from North Korea fell in April to a near three-year low, data showed Tuesday, as Beijing faces calls to put more economic pressure on its nuclear-armed ally. China -- the North's sole...
A protester was killed Tuesday in a Bahraini police raid on a sit-in by supporters of a leading Shiite cleric put on trial in the Gulf state, a rights group said. The Britain-based Bahrain Institute...
North Korea on Tuesday "flatly rejected" a United Nations statement vowing to punish its latest banned missile test with tighter sanctions. In a unanimous statement backed by Pyongyang's ally China,...
China welcomed on Tuesday the US Senate's confirmation of Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as US ambassador to Beijing, praising his "positive role" in Sino-US relations. Chinese foreign ministry...
Bahrain police on Tuesday opened fire on a long-running sit-in in support of a leading Shiite cleric in the Sunni-ruled Gulf state, hit by years of unrest. Eyewitnesses told AFP there were multiple...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned the "evil losers" behind a bomb attack at a pop concert in the British city of Manchester that killed at least 22 people. "So many young, beautiful,...
