United States
Red Sox Ban Fan Over New Racial Slur Incident
The Boston Red Sox have issued a lifetime ban to a fan following a fresh incident of racist abuse at Fenway Park, the...
WhatsApp Apologises For Global Outage, Restores Services
WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that...
US Government Mobilizes $115 Million For Ghana’s Agricultural Sector
Feed the Future, an initiative by the United States government has mobilized more than $115 million in private sector...
Russia, Turkey, Iran Ink Deal On Safe Zones In Syria
Syrian regime allies Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey on Thursday signed a memorandum on a Moscow-backed plan...
Google Coughs Up 306 Million Euros In Italy Tax Settlement
Google said Thursday that it would pay 306 million euros ($334 million) to settle a tax dispute in Italy, where it was...
US Trade Deficit Edges Lower In March
The US trade deficit drifted lower in March despite record imports from Mexico and a drop in total exports, the...
South African Visual Artist Wins Top Spanish Arts Prize
South African visual artist William Kentridge, best known for his animated films of shape-shifting charcoal drawings,...
Syria Rebels Return To Peace Talks
Syrian rebels on Thursday resumed participation in peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana centred around a...
Zimbabwe ‘not A Poor Country’
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe insisted on Thursday that his country is not a failed state and accused the US of...
Afghan Ex-PM and ‘butcher of Kabul’
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who returned to Kabul Thursday after more than 20 years, is one of Afghanistan's most notorious...
Lydia Forson Nominated Best Lead Actress For ‘Keteke’
Lydia Forson has been nominated for Best Lead Actress role for the movie ‘Keteke’ at the Ghana Entertainment Award,...
Contemplating A Bagbin Presidency
Hon. Alban. K. Bagbin declared his interest in becoming president during a media interview recently. Not surprisingly...
WhatsApp Back Online After Global Outage of ‘a Few Hours’
WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that...
Facebook Nears Two Billion Monthly Users
Facebook’s profits have jumped in the first three months of the year, as the social network closes in on two billion...
Politics, Potholes and Price Drops
Kenya plans to export its first oil in June, but analysts say the test phase faces major challenges and appears...
US Opioid Crisis At Epidemic Proportions
Many US communities are facing an epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse that is straining resources from police, to...
Trump To Ease Restrictions Against Religious Groups
President Donald Trump will issue an executive order on Thursday making it easier for churches and religious groups to...
DR Congo Miners Upset At US ‘conflict Mineral’ Rules
In the lush hills of eastern DR Congo, where the trade in rare minerals has long fed unrest, miners complain that...
Route To Raqa Dotted With Discarded Veils, Burned Cars
Dozens of black veils dotted a freshly laid sand berm in northern Syria, ditched by women fleeing the Islamic State...