Now that keeping pets has become popular in Shanghai, pampered pedigree dogs are becoming a regular sight on the streets. The boom in the number of dogs and cats has increased the number of strays as more pets are abandoned. But from May 1…
The operator of the Fukushima Nuclear plant, TEPCO, says it's trying to determine whether the facility was actually damaged by the earthquake on March 11th, rather than the resulting tsunami.
TEPCO also says fuel rods in the facility's nu…
Brazilian families of victims killed in an Air France flight over the Atlantic more than two years ago have welcomed news of recovery of data from the plane's two black boxes.
France's BEA air crash investigation agency said it would neve…
The Northern Students Union has called on people from the three northern regions to come together and embrace the things that unite them.
The Union said it was disheartening that the Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions were a…
The second live eviction show of M-Net’s Big Brother Amplified (15 May at 19:00 CAT on DStv Channel 198) delivered yet more surprises as Namibia’s Jossy was sent home after receiving the fewest votes from Africa this week. Confidence, Vim…
The Conference of Rectors of Polytechnics (CORP), has assured that there would be no more strikes in the Polytechnics like before.
The Reverend Professor Daniel Adjepong Nyarko, Chairman of CORP, and Rector of the Takoradi Polytechni…
The Ghana National Association of Teachers on Monday requested the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to give a definite statement on when salary arrears would be paid to teachers.
A statement issued in Accra and signed by Mrs Irene …
The Western Regional Police Command has arrested three persons for allegedly kidnapping a 14-year old boy, Edward Adjie, at Daboase in the Mpohor Wassa East District of the Western Region.
The suspects; two males and a woman, are Han…
Three men between the ages of 19 and 26 had been sentenced to 50 years each in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a taxi driver of his Opel taxi cab.
All the convicts, John Quaison, alias Kwaku Agyei, a 19-year old …
South Korea will reassess security risks for its reconstruction workers and troops in Afghanistan amid a series of rocket attacks on their base following the death of Osama bin Laden, foreign ministry officials said Monday.
On Sunday, …
South Korea's military launched major drills on Monday to enhance their capability for beach assaults and landings, military officials said, as tensions with North Korea persist over two deadly attacks last year.
Some 4,000 troops aboa…
A rocket-propelled grenade exploded in the air near a base for South Korea's aid workers and troops in
Afghanistan on Sunday, but no casualties were reported, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.
The grenade exploded outside the base…
An Indian Army personnel, who was working as a Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) module and passing on sensitive information inimical to the country's security, has been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court.
…
Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is expanding at a rapid pace and the country is expected to soon have a fourth operational reactor to ramp up the production of plutonium, according to a media report.
According to new commercial s…
Egypt's Health Ministry said on Sunday that 78 people were wounded during violent clashes that took place on Saturday in downtown Cairo.
The clashes occurred at the Egyptian TV building when a group of unidentified men attacked Christians…
The UN special envoy on Sunday paid a one-day visit to Libya for meetings with senior government
officials as part of the UN diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in the North African country.
During his visit, Abdel Elah al-Khatib, U…
Using a simple, minimally-invasive technique to analyze cells from the interior of the nose, U.S.
researchers have detected lung cancer in its earliest stage.
For the study, the researchers at the Boston University Medical Centre collect…
NASA is close to deciding on a landing site for its Mars rover Curiosity mission by narrowing the
choices to four, media reports said Monday.
Scientists in the close-knit Mars research community get one last chance to make their case thi…
Turning to Japan where new evacuations have begun beyond the 30-kilometre exclusion zone around
the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a giant barge to store radioactive water has been sent to the damaged the facility to bolster
sta…
The Northern Students Union has called on people from the three northern regions to come together and embrace the things that unite them.
The Union said it was disheartening that the Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions were a…
The second live eviction show of M-Net’s Big Brother Amplified (15 May at 19:00 CAT on DStv Channel 198) delivered yet more surprises as Namibia’s Jossy was sent home after receiving the fewest votes from Africa this week. Confidence, Vim…
The Conference of Rectors of Polytechnics (CORP), has assured that there would be no more strikes in the Polytechnics like before.
The Reverend Professor Daniel Adjepong Nyarko, Chairman of CORP, and Rector of the Takoradi Polytechni…
The Ghana National Association of Teachers on Monday requested the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to give a definite statement on when salary arrears would be paid to teachers.
A statement issued in Accra and signed by Mrs Irene …
The Western Regional Police Command has arrested three persons for allegedly kidnapping a 14-year old boy, Edward Adjie, at Daboase in the Mpohor Wassa East District of the Western Region.
The suspects; two males and a woman, are Han…
Three men between the ages of 19 and 26 had been sentenced to 50 years each in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a taxi driver of his Opel taxi cab.
All the convicts, John Quaison, alias Kwaku Agyei, a 19-year old …
South Korea will reassess security risks for its reconstruction workers and troops in Afghanistan amid a series of rocket attacks on their base following the death of Osama bin Laden, foreign ministry officials said Monday.
On Sunday, …
South Korea's military launched major drills on Monday to enhance their capability for beach assaults and landings, military officials said, as tensions with North Korea persist over two deadly attacks last year.
Some 4,000 troops aboa…
A rocket-propelled grenade exploded in the air near a base for South Korea's aid workers and troops in
Afghanistan on Sunday, but no casualties were reported, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.
The grenade exploded outside the base…
An Indian Army personnel, who was working as a Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) module and passing on sensitive information inimical to the country's security, has been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court.
…
Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is expanding at a rapid pace and the country is expected to soon have a fourth operational reactor to ramp up the production of plutonium, according to a media report.
According to new commercial s…
Egypt's Health Ministry said on Sunday that 78 people were wounded during violent clashes that took place on Saturday in downtown Cairo.
The clashes occurred at the Egyptian TV building when a group of unidentified men attacked Christians…
The UN special envoy on Sunday paid a one-day visit to Libya for meetings with senior government
officials as part of the UN diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in the North African country.
During his visit, Abdel Elah al-Khatib, U…
Using a simple, minimally-invasive technique to analyze cells from the interior of the nose, U.S.
researchers have detected lung cancer in its earliest stage.
For the study, the researchers at the Boston University Medical Centre collect…
NASA is close to deciding on a landing site for its Mars rover Curiosity mission by narrowing the
choices to four, media reports said Monday.
Scientists in the close-knit Mars research community get one last chance to make their case thi…
Turning to Japan where new evacuations have begun beyond the 30-kilometre exclusion zone around
the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a giant barge to store radioactive water has been sent to the damaged the facility to bolster
sta…
The Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC), is to provide the equipment and environment that would promote teaching and learning in the 21st Century.
Mr Africanus Anane, Headmaster of the school said an Electronic Interactive …
Mr John Rex A. Gadgekpo, Director of the Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL), has expressed serious concern about a recent armed attack on students of the institute and other road users along the road linking the institute’s new campus at L…
Hajia Boya Gariba, Deputy Minister of Women and Children’s Affair, has called on Muslims to redefine their strategies and responses in dealing with the many challenges that confront them.
She asked Muslims to focus on the economy and…
Dr Rabiatu Ammah-Konney, Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, has urged Muslims to desist from extravagant marriage ceremonies, which she said was the major cause of broken matrimonies.
She said divorce among Muslims ha…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Sunday confirmed that he would be in Cote d’Ivoire to witness the investiture of Ivorian President Elect Allasane Ouattara, to be held on May 21, 2011.
He therefore asked the religious community to …
The 70-year-old wife of former Egyptian Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized in Sharm el-Sheikh for a suspected heart attack Saturday, a hospital official said.
Suzanne Mubarak was told Friday she would be detained by officials for questioning …
The Red Cross said there were no immediate reports of deaths after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Costa Rica.
The shaker was felt over much of the Central American nation late Friday and knocked out cell phone service in many areas.
The …
A worker collapsed and died Saturday at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but not from radiation, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
TEPCO, the utility that runs the earthquake-crippled reactors, told The New York Times the contract …
Violence spiraled in Yemen Saturday as suspected al-Qaida fighters killed six soldiers and troops fired on protesters, the government said.
The Interior Ministry told CNN six soldiers were killed and five wounded in the town of Rada'a and…
A night raid in eastern Afghanistan has killed a child for the second time in three days, NATO said Saturday, and a second boy died during protests.
NATO apologized for the killing, which occurred before dawn Saturday in the remote Hesare…
Archaeologists say they've found 5,000-year-old rock carvings in northern Sudan depicting scenes they can't explain.
Researchers discovered rock art in 15 sites in an arid valley known as Wadi Abu Dom in the Bayuda Desert, about 18 miles …
A Canadian doctor on trial for killing his two young children described what led to the stabbings and his bungled suicide attempt.
Guy Turcotte, 39, spent most of the week on the witness stand, The (Montreal) Gazette reported. His cross-e…
The completely solar-powered Solar Impulse plane finished its first international flight, from Switzerland to Belgium, in about 13 hours, officials said.
CNET.com reported Saturday the plane, its 200-foot wingspan covered by more than 12,…
Wallace McCain, who founded the Canadian frozen food giant McCain Foods with his brother, has died of pancreatic cancer, his family says.
McCain, 81, was at his home in Toronto when he died Friday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported…
Insurgents in Afghanistan opened fire on a medical evacuation helicopter marked with the universally recognized Red Cross symbol, military officials said.
The helicopter had been called to Helmand province to evacuate a soldier injured by…
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