Tiny dots produced by some laser printers are a secret code that can allow the government to track down counterfeiters, a new study concludes, raising the hackles of privacy advocates.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its resea…
Police have raided a recording studio in London where disgraced supermodel Kate Moss is alleged to have snorted cocaine and they plan to interview the 31-year-old next month, a newspaper said on Saturday.
The British beauty is current…
The Right Reverend Daniel Allotey, Anglican Bishop of Cape Coast, on Thursday called for a review of the quota and protocol systems for admissions into second cycle institutions to reduce problems associated with the computerised selection…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday denied curtailing the entire operations of Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL) saying, "only operations at the plant's north pit has been suspended".
Nana Andoh, Director of Mining at the EPA…
More than 100 teachers in Bolgatanga on Thursday embarked on a four-hour peaceful demonstration to register their displeasure over the undue delay of their 2005 salary negotiations between the Central Management Board (CMB) and the Consult…
The Centre for Information, Technologies, Research and Development (CITRED), a communication consultancy, has selected eight Senior Secondary Schools in the Northern Region for training in computer literacy.
The beneficiaries are the…
Mr Solomon Kwami Tetteh, the National President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), has said journalists were "gradually losing the strong constitutional power and respect they had during the 1990s due to acts of 'deviant' journalism being…
Pepsi-Cola Ghana Limited on Wednesday presented a cheque for 90 million cedis to nine winners of its Stars hunt raffle.
The wanted "Stars" are Michael Essien, Stephen Appiah, Henry Thiery, Becham David and Ronaldinho. The lucky winne…
Prof Gyan Baffour, a Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, has stressed the need for micro finance institutions to expand their outreach services efficiently and on a sustainable basis to low-income households.
He was add…
The Aburi Girls Secondary School has won the maiden Cocoa Quiz competition organised for some secondary schools in the Eastern Region at Koforidua on Thursday.
Aburi Girls won with 27 points, beating Pope John's Secondary School, Kof…
The Ghana Bar Association has returned all the seven-member national executives unopposed for another year's term during elections to climax the association's three-day annual general conference at Elmina.
They are Mr Solomon Kwami …
Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) personnel
at the Abutia-Check point on Wednesday intercepted
a tipper truck with 27 bundles of English wax prints embedded in sand.
CEPS personnel used spades and other tools to reach …
Thirteen people died when a bus carrying pilgrims from a Muslim shrine overturned in Pakistan Wednesday, raising the toll from the fifth such accident since the weekend to nearly 70, police said.
The overloaded vehicle toppled onto it…
The US Army has dropped an inquiry into whether US military personnel provided gruesome photographs of war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan to an Internet website in return for access to pornography, army spokesmen said Wednesday.
A preli…
As part of measures to combat the recent upsurge in armed robberies, Operation Calm Life was on Thursday re-launched to minimise the crime rate in Accra.
The operation, which would be carried out by personnel from the Ghana Armed Forces …
Dr Kofi Asare, the Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, has expressed concern about the increased cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the region.
He said between 2002 to date, a total of 6,978 cases of the disease had been detecte…
A team of Police Officers drawn from the National Headquarters,
CID Headquarters, Accra and Tema Regions have
been formed to deal with armed robberies within the Accra-Tema Metropolis and other parts of the country.
This is in re…
An attempt by a jilted husband to kill his ex-wife together with their three children by lacing their drinking water with a poisonous chemical at Agbozume failed because the woman scented the chemical while taking a sip.
Klutsey Dork…
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Education and Sports on Sunday announced that government had decided to institute a programme that will provide research grants and scholarships for teaching staff in the private tertiary institutions in pri…
Professor Kwesi Andam, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), on Friday asked the Volta River Authority (VRA) to accelerate the procurement procedure to bring the second bulk of electricity for …
The Chairman of the Education sub-committee of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday, called on government to monitor the disbursement of the capitation grant to ensure that it was used for the intended purpose.
He said al…
Hit by the tragic loss of three urologists of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, who are being buried on Friday, the Teaching Hospital paid its last respects to its fallen colleagues by shutting their consultation rooms, except for emergenci…
The US Embassy in Accra explained that 24 Ghanaians who were deported from the US were convicted of various offences, including possession of drugs, domestic violence and other crimes.
"Under US law, both non-immigrants and immigran…
Edwin Eastman, the boyfriend of late Suzzy Malike Williams, an actress, on Friday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with careless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Eastman, a 25-year-old musician, who w…
Ghana's 2005 Beauty Queen, Miss Lamisi Mbillah, has made a passionate appeal to people from Northern Ghana to send their children to school and ensure that they are free from the guinea worm and other public health diseases to enable them…
Professor Kwesi Andam, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), on Friday asked the Volta River Authority (VRA) to accelerate the procurement procedure to bring the second bulk of electricity for …
The Chairman of the Education sub-committee of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday, called on government to monitor the disbursement of the capitation grant to ensure that it was used for the intended purpose.
He said al…
Hit by the tragic loss of three urologists of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, who are being buried on Friday, the Teaching Hospital paid its last respects to its fallen colleagues by shutting their consultation rooms, except for emergenci…
The US Embassy in Accra explained that 24 Ghanaians who were deported from the US were convicted of various offences, including possession of drugs, domestic violence and other crimes.
"Under US law, both non-immigrants and immigran…
Edwin Eastman, the boyfriend of late Suzzy Malike Williams, an actress, on Friday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with careless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Eastman, a 25-year-old musician, who w…
Ghana's 2005 Beauty Queen, Miss Lamisi Mbillah, has made a passionate appeal to people from Northern Ghana to send their children to school and ensure that they are free from the guinea worm and other public health diseases to enable them…
Dr Sam Adjei, the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, called on managers of the Mutual Health Organisations (MHOs) not to politicise their services but consider it a social service delivery to members of their communities…
Mr. Charles Bintim, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development on Friday asked metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to move away from the traditional practice of engaging full-time revenue collectors as a way of lifting…
The Government is to pay between 200 billion cedis and 300 billion cedis as compensation for landed properties to be affected by execution of the proposed Outer Ring Road project.
Mr. Alex Twumasi Boakye, Director, Urban Roads, who a…
Dr Sam Adjei, the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, called on managers of the Mutual Health Organisations (MHOs) not to politicise their services but consider it a social service delivery to members of their communities…
Mr. Charles Bintim, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development on Friday asked metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to move away from the traditional practice of engaging full-time revenue collectors as a way of lifting…
The Government is to pay between 200 billion cedis and 300 billion cedis as compensation for landed properties to be affected by execution of the proposed Outer Ring Road project.
Mr. Alex Twumasi Boakye, Director, Urban Roads, who a…
Senior defence aides warned president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that any guarantee to defend India against Chinese attack would require a commitment to use nuclear weapons.
On a declassified tape recording, released Thursday, the then-…
The World Health Organisation has declared tuberculosis an emergency in Africa after cases of the killer disease tripled in countries with high rates of HIV and doubled on the continent as a whole since 1990.
The declaration was made…
The United States and the European Union have agreed not to seek an emergency meeting of the watchdog UN nuclear agency even if Iran fails to meet a September 3 UN deadline to suspend atomic fuel work that could be used to make nuclear we…
Acting in response to a series of civil aviation disasters this month, France will next week begin publishing a list of airlines banned in its airspace for safety reasons, officials said Thursday.
The country's civil aviation authori…
The alarming scope and size of the outbreak of cholera in the West Africa Sub-region has prompted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to hold a regional meeting in Dakar, Senegal early next week to arrest…
The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) on Thursday cautioned prospective vehicle buyers to desist from procuring fake documents to register uncustomed vehicles.
The CEPS said some devious Ghanaians still resort to import…
The Management of the Ghana Port and Harbours Authority (GPHA) on Friday donated a total of 8,400 bags of rice valued at 1.6 billion cedis to the people of Niger.
The donation is GPHA's "widow's mite" to help Nigerien victims of the food…
Senior defence aides warned president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that any guarantee to defend India against Chinese attack would require a commitment to use nuclear weapons.
On a declassified tape recording, released Thursday, the then-…
The World Health Organisation has declared tuberculosis an emergency in Africa after cases of the killer disease tripled in countries with high rates of HIV and doubled on the continent as a whole since 1990.
The declaration was made…
The United States and the European Union have agreed not to seek an emergency meeting of the watchdog UN nuclear agency even if Iran fails to meet a September 3 UN deadline to suspend atomic fuel work that could be used to make nuclear we…
Acting in response to a series of civil aviation disasters this month, France will next week begin publishing a list of airlines banned in its airspace for safety reasons, officials said Thursday.
The country's civil aviation authori…
The alarming scope and size of the outbreak of cholera in the West Africa Sub-region has prompted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to hold a regional meeting in Dakar, Senegal early next week to arrest…
The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) on Thursday cautioned prospective vehicle buyers to desist from procuring fake documents to register uncustomed vehicles.
The CEPS said some devious Ghanaians still resort to import…