Macedonia will beef up its military presence in Afghanistan by sending more troops as early as the start of next year, local media reported on Tuesday.
Skopje will deploy an additional 80 troops to the NATO-led International Security…
Eight U.S. service members and one Afghan civilian were killed Tuesday in multiple IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attacks in southern Afghanistan, said a statement of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
Pakistani security forces killed 42 more militants during the last 24 hours as the operation in the country's tribal area steadily progressed towards the Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan, the any said Tuesday in a daily press releas…
Another helicopter of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) crashed in west Afghanistan Monday leaving 10 dead and injuring 26 others, a press release of the military alliance said.
"Today an International Secur…
Although NATO defense ministers have endorsed U.S.-NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF) commander General Stanley McChrystal's calls for further reinforcement in Afghanistan, it has been observed that additional commitm…
Mrs Fanny Judith Kumah, a Director at the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE),has stressed the need for students to be trained to acquire the skills in public policy formulation to solve problems.
"We are not growing any …
The Youth for Action Ghana (YAG), youth activist group dedicated to the promotion of human rights, protection of the environment and inculcation of patriotism, has condemned Newmont Ahafo Mine for the recent cyanide spillage.
Newmo…
The South Korean government on Wednesday began to send 850-million-won (around 714,000 U.S. ollars) worth of cross-border communication equipment to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in a bid to modernize an inter-Korean mil…
Sight For Africa, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) into optical screening, on Wednesday offered free screening for 1,500 people at Darkuman, a suburb of Accra.
Mr Collins Antwi, Coordinator of the NGO, said the exercise held th…
Winners of the National Best Teacher awards have been asked to serve as role models for other teachers, to raise the standards of teaching in the country.
Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, who made th…
The Bolgatanga Circuit Court, presided over by Justice William Boampong on Tuesday sentenced two people to seven years imprisonment each with hard labour for stealing from a contractor, Mr. Hakeem Dawuda.
The two accused persons are …
The Management of General Electric Commercial Finance (GECF), a US organization, on Thursday presented health care equipment worth 4,000 dollars to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
The equipment included 3,700 pairs of spectacles, sur…
A 30-million dollar Northern Region Small Towns Water and Sanitation (NORST) Project, has been launched to improve the provision of water and sanitation facilities in 30 small towns in 13 districts of the eastern corridor of the
Northern…
A Senior Pastor of the Christ Missions International Church at Asante-Mampong has urged other pastors to use the pulpit to discourage occult practices among students.
The Reverend Francis Osei said young people must be assisted to h…
Health researchers have warned that wearing a cell phone on one's belt could lead to decreased bone density in the area of the pelvis that is commonly used for bone grafts.
This is contained in a new research report on the health eff…
Dr Esther Bediako, Government Statistician on Wednesday advocated the complete overhaul of the country's agricultural statistic system.
She said Ghana needed more and better statistics on agriculture, a major economic sector.
D…
Birim North Umbrella Youth Association, a group made up of 13 recognized youth groups in communities in the Birim North District, has called for the granting of mining licence to Newmont Ghana Gold Limited to mine gold deposits in the area…
South Korea's death toll from the A/H1N1 flu has increased to 29, the government said on Wednesday.
According to Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, the new flu was confirmed to have been the direct cause of death of a 4…
A groundbreaking discovery has been made by U.S. researchers which may lead to future drug therapies to extend the life of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), …
The United States remains waiting Iran's official response to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s proposal to use Iran's own low-enriched uranium and send it out to be enriched to fuel their research reactor, State Department s…
Matters related to the financing of climate change control will be the top priority for Poland at the EU summit in Brussels starting Thursday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said here Tuesday.
"My cabinet has formulated a firm pos…
Singapore and the World Health Organization (WHO) tied up to organize a workshop here to integrate water safety knowledge for universities, Singapore's national water agency PUB said on Wednesday.
To better equip engineering graduate…
The majority of European companies had failed to buy environmentally sustainable palm oil, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) revealed in a press release Wednesday in Gland, Switzerland.
Only 10 of 59 assessed European companies ha…
Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inaugurated a conference of tiger specialists on Tuesday in the capital Kathmandu.
The conference is being organized with the assistance of World Bank.
It has been initiated to form a st…
The inclusion of UN Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme in a new agreement to extend or replace the Kyoto Protocol could generate between 8 billion and 16 billion U.S. dollars annually in carbon credits f…
Chinese scientists from the country's 26th Antarctic expedition are expected to complete the world's first land cover map of the Antarctica at the end of this year.
It will be the most accurate map of the continent, presenting variou…
Singapore will be hosting three regional meetings on the environment from Oct. 29 to 30, Singapore's Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources said on Monday.
The meetings are the 11th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environme…
The future Mars manned exploration projects will only become true by using nuclear energy, said President and Chief Designer of Russia's Energia Aerospace Corporation Vitaly Lopota here on Monday.
Since current rocket technologies ar…
The Indonesia Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN) prepared to launch a satellite in 2011, spokesperson of the LAPAN Elly Kuntjahyowati said here Tuesday.
The satellite is aimed to address communication problem in post- disaster phas…
NASA on Tuesday postponed the test flight of Ares I-X rocket, an unmanned prototype moon rocket, due to poor weather.
The 327-foot (100-meter) Ares I-X's Tuesday flight attempt was plagued by weather issues, even though the vehicle i…
More middle-aged American women have heart attacks but the death rate has dropped in the past years, according to studies made by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC).
The two studies also found that heart attac…
Asia is poised to be the largest supplier of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) to the global carbon market, a senior Singapore official said on Monday.
Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Education S I…
The Shikaras, the local name for boats, on the placid waters of Dal Lake here Saturday formed a shape of 350 as part of the campaign dedicated to environment protection and dealing with climate change.
The exercise was organized by I…
The illegal trade of protected animals remains rampant, despite relevant institutions carrying out regular raids against such practice, a local media reported here on Monday.
Citing to the result of a survey carried out by the Indone…
With the view to developing a strategic action plan for the protection of tigers, the Nepali government is organizing a four-day global tiger workshop from Tuesday.
The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop 2009 will be attended by more th…
Schoolchildren and their parents from around Cyprus gathered here Saturday to sort and bale more than 350 kg of cans for recycling as their way to mark the International Day of Climate Action.
The event, one of more than 5,200 rallie…
Carpenters at Anloga in Kumasi have been asked to take advantage of ultra modern equipment provided at Sokoban Wood Village and improve upon their products, expand their business and become more competitive.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the…
The Director of Project Citizen-Ghana, one of the flagship youth programmes under the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mrs Fanny Kumah, has urged facilitators in participating schools to ensure that the students acquired ski…
The Northern Students Union (NSU) has appealed to the government to appoint a person of northern descent to become the Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies.
The President of NSU, Mr. Issahaku Arimeyaw Somo, stated…
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for East Gonja, Mr. Alhassan Mumuni, has pledged to run an efficient administration with improvement in the quality of education, sanitation, job creation, good roads and accessible health care.
He …
Clash between Taliban and police in Ghazni province south of Afghanistan left six insurgents dead, a private television channel reported Thursday.
"Six Taliban insurgents were killed in clash with police in Gero district last night,"…
Dr. Benjamin Kumbuor, Deputy Minister of Health, on Thursday said his sector ministry, would review and repackage the principles of Primary Health Care to focus attention on building community structures for effective health care delivery.…
Afghan troops in the northwest Badghis province have killed over two dozen Taliban insurgents, a local newspaper reported Thursday.
"In a joint operation of Afghan and international forces launched Monday in the Bom valley of Qadis d…
Adolescents who have been sexually abused will be trialed in New South Wales (NSW), Minister for Women Linda Burney said on Thursday.
The therapeutic support will be offered to 12 to 16-year-olds as part of an expansion of services o…
The Australian government will not hand out cash incentives to the 78 asylum seekers on board the Oceanic Viking, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Thursday.
The opposition queried whether the government was planning to make cash pay…
The death toll from the car blast on Wednesday in northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar has mounted to 106 with over 150 injured while rescue sources say that more people could still be buried under the debris.
Hospital sources in the…
The Dutch Government has released GH¢12.8 million to the Ghana School Feeding Programme Mr Kwame Nuoko, Technical Advisor to the Programme (GSFP), announced this during a civil society platform dialogue meeting in Tamale on Thursday.
…
A/H1N1 flu has claimed the first life in war-torn Afghanistan, a local newspaper reported Thursday.
The first A/H1N1 flu victim in the country is a 29-year-old man who
died Wednesday in a local hospital, daily Rah-e-Nejat reported.…
The first phase of A/H1N1 immunizations in New York City schools got underway Wednesday morning.
This marks the beginning of a three-phase initiative to vaccinate the city's school-age population against A/H1N1 influenza.
The f…
NASA on Wednesday launched the Ares I-X rocket in Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It's the first flight test for the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system.
Rocketing into the Florida sky, the 327-foot rocket …