The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) will join other National Olympic Committees (NOC) to observe this year’s edition of the Olympic Day on Saturday, June 24, 2017. The day would be held under the...
Argentina shrugged off Lionel Messi's controversial absence by thumping six goals past minnows Singapore in a one-sided friendly on Tuesday. Messi's pre-game departure -- reportedly to prepare for...
Diego Souza will replace injured striker Gabriel Jesus and Philippe Coutinho is line to lead Brazil in Tuesday's friendly with Australia in Melbourne. A replacement had to be found for Manchester...
Brazil manager Tite says he is considering changes for Tuesday's game against Australia after blasting his side's poor finishing in the loss to Argentina in Melbourne. The world's number one ranked...
Ghana’s Kofi Annan (a former UN Secretary General) and founder of the Ashesi University, Patrick Awuah, have been named among the 100 most reputable people on earth for the year 2017. South African...
New manager Jorge Sampaoli says he is looking to superstar Lionel Messi to revive Argentina's World Cup fortunes starting with Friday's friendly with Brazil in Melbourne Sampaoli has been installed...
Italy coach Giampiero Ventura says Mario Balotelli has been left out of the national team for non-footballing reasons, and the striker's future with the national team is in his own hands. Balotelli...
Equatorial Guinea was for the first time elected to the UN Security Council on Friday during a vote that saw Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and Poland also win seats at the top world...
The United States have raised hopes of a surprise Under-20 World Cup win after they stormed into the quarter-finals with a 6-0 win over New Zealand. Seventeen-year-old Josh Sargent equalled the...
A 21-month jail term handed down last year to Barcelona and Argentina footballer Lionel Messi has been confirmed by Spain’s Supreme Court, but he is unlikely to go to prison. Messi and his father...
Same-sex marriage, which Taiwan could become the first Asian nation to authorise, is currently legal in around 20 countries around the world, 13 of which are in pioneering Europe. Such unions are,...
Donald Trump was on Monday to become the first serving US president to visit the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, located in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. The city is revered by...
The FIFA Under-20 World Cup kicks off in South Korea on Saturday and looks wide open after the 2015 champions Serbia and beaten finalists Brazil both failed to qualify. Some of the world's top young...
North Korea's latest missile launch was a successful test of a new type of rocket, Pyongyang's state media reported Monday. Sunday's launch was of a "newly-developed mid/long-range strategic...
Four-time champion Rafael Nadal ended a three-year, seven-match losing streak against Novak Djokovic to reach the final of the Madrid Open. The Spaniard, 30, won 6-2 6-4 to claim his first victory...
Rafa Nadal beat David Goffin 7-6(3) 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the Madrid Open, where he will face Novak Djokovic, the beneficiary of a walkover when Kei Nishikori pulled out due to injury....
President Akufo-Addo has true to prediction, ignored the most senior jurist on the Supreme Court of Ghana, Justice William Atuguba, by short listing three others, including his cousin; Justice Sophia...
Ghana’s Supreme Court judge, Justice Anin Yeboah, has been appointed by international football governing body, FIFA, to chair its Disciplinary Committee. He secured an overwhelming vote, 98 per...
New Zealand coach Steve Hansen warned England they could struggle to get out of a treacherous group for the second straight Rugby World Cup. Hansen appeared to play down English hopes of knocking the...
Seven years have passed but events of the Ghana-Uruguay match in Johannesburg, South Africa, are still fresh in the mind of ex-Black Stars Captain, Stephen ‘Tornado’ Appiah. It is a memory that...
