Roman Catholic cardinals began meeting Saturday for the 12th and last time before the secret conclave in which 115 of them will elect a successor to the late Pope John Paul II.
The cardinals were expected to wrap up debate on the stat…
The chiefs and people of Mabang in the Ahafo-Ano North District in the Ashanti Region are converting an abandoned post office building under rehabilitation into a police station.
The police station in the town has been temporarily cl…
The Ghana High Commission has donated a mamograph, equipment for breast cancer screening, to the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre.
The donation was in response to the hospital's appeal launched last year for diagnostic equipment.…
The British High Commissioner, Mr Gordon Wetherell, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Usman Nuhu Sharubutu, at his residence near the Accra Central Mosque in Accra.
A statement issued by the High C…
Italy on Tuesday adopted the European Union arrest warrant becoming the last EU country to do so following strong opposition from a governing coalition party.
The warrant aims to replace cumbersome extradition procedures by allowing E…
A discharge of water from a dam swept away scores of Hindu pilgrims while they were praying on the banks of the Narmada River in central India, leaving at least 53 dead, senior officials said.
The chief minister of the central state …
The three refurbished wards of the children's block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), was on Monday inaugurated at a ceremony at the hospital in Kumasi.
The project, which involved the laying of new tiles, replacement of …
Baffour Kwasi Afrifa I, the chief of Akim Peseato in the Fanteakwa District, has called on Churches and opinion leaders to assist traditional authorities in abolishing outmoded customs and traditions.
He noted that obsolete traditio…
Dozens of stamp collectors, tourists, priests, nuns and ordinary Romans queued outside a Vatican post office in St Peter's Square Tuesday as rare stamps marking the papal vacancy went on sale.
"They are not particularly valuable, may…
A day after the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, more flowers than usual were placed at Paris' Place de l'Alma on Sunday where the prince's
late wife Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997.
Diana admirers placed …
Nigerian Catholics in this mainly-Muslim northern city were deeply moved by Pope John Paul II's funeral on Friday, but outraged that a power-cut prevented them for seeing the end of the ceremony.
"The funeral is the most historic even…
Roman Catholic cardinals convened on Saturday to discuss further details of the transition until a successor is named to Pope John Paul II, and declined afterwards to comment on their deliberations.
A South African cardinal, Wilfrid F…
The Vatican is to issue a set of stamps that will be usable only until the election of a new pope, a period that could be as little as 10 days, it announced Saturday.
The city-state's philately and minting office will issue the set of…
Michael Jackson's defense against child sex charges took a fresh blow Tuesday when his former maid told how she caught him in the shower with an Australian boy.
The woman, whose son tearfully told jurors that he was groped three times…
Japan has welcomed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's resolve for the world body to adopt sweeping reforms but insisted that an expansion of the Security Council bring new permanent members such as Tokyo.
Annan, presenting a report Mon…
Dizengoff Ghana Limited, dealers in agro-chemicals and Motorola Services is diversifying into aquaculture and its appropriate technology transfer to make that branch in agriculture viable and attractive to farmers in the country.
Mr …
A Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday convicted Egya Mensah, a 20-year-old auto electrician for being on the premises of the complainant, Mr Kwesi Annan, a fish farmer at Effiakuma number one, a suburb of Takoradi for unlawful pu…
Miss Elizabeth Ohene, Minister of State, Ministry of Education and Sports at the weekend deplored the lack of interest in school sports by students culminating in the downward trend of sport countrywide.
She expressed regret that sports …
The general public is reminded that Friday, March 25 (Good Friday) and Monday, March 28 (Easter Monday) are statutory public holidays.
A statement signed by Papa Owusu-Ankomah, the Minister of the Interior, said people should observe…
An armed and dangerous mental patient, previously found guilty of murder and rape, escaped from a psychiatric institution in the southern Swedish town of Vaexjoe on Monday, police said.
"At 9:50 am (0850 GMT) today we received word th…
A sentence of flogging and imprisonment imposed by a court on a Saudi academic has been quashed by the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Hamza al-Muzaini, a lecturer in lin…
The weather will be cloudy over southern Ghana this morning becoming sunny later in the afternoon with thunderstorms or rain showers over high grounds but spreading out to affect many more southern stations tonight.
Northern Ghan…
The controversy over a heavily brain-damaged Florida woman, who has been kept on life support over the past 15 years, took a dramatic turn Saturday when congressional leaders invoked emergency powers to pass a bill they hope will result in…
The Koforidua District branch of the Women's Wing of the Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints on Saturday presented assorted items estimated at 20 million cedis to the New Tafo Government Hospital as part of activities marking the 163rd birthd…
he Eastern Regional Director of Education, Mrs Ewura-Abena Ahwoi, has attributed the current examination malpractices that had rocked schools of late to students' tendency to adopt the dishonest character traits of the folklore hero, 'Kwak…
The Christian community in Kumasi observed Palm Sunday with the jubilant mood reminiscent of the tumultuous cry of victory that greeted Jesus when he triumphantly entered Jerusalem.
The waving of palm branches, woven into neat braids…
The Twifo Praso Magistrate Court has imposed a total fine of 2.6 million cedis on four drivers for various traffic offences.
Eric Nuamah, John Willie pleaded guilty for causing road obstruction and Henry Tandoh and William Kenu for …
Many of the world's greatest thinkers will gather in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan in May for a conference of Nobel laureates, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel announced Thursday.
Between 35 an…
Russia said Friday that it favoured the resumption of six-nation talks over North Korea's nuclear programme as soon as possible.
"We are in favour of resuming the six-sided negotiations as soon as possible and finding solutions that …
The Kasoa Police in the Central Region have arrested an alleged notorious armed robber, a member of a gang said to be operating at Nima and Madina areas in Accra.
Ibrahim Mohammed, Alias Sumila and Babylon, a 23-year-old motorbike me…
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ghana has appealed to the Ministry of Education and Sports to provide adequate infrastructure for to less endowed schools in rural areas to absorb Junior Secondary Sc…
A core reactor at Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant will be installed Friday, marking a major milestone towards completion of the project, state-run Taiwan Power (Taipower) said Tuesday.
If weather permits, the pressur…
Orphanage Africa (OA), an NGO in collaboration with the French Navy have supplied a new water storage tank, valued at 20 million cedis to the Osu Children's Home in Accra.
The 3200-litre capacity storage tank, which took three days …
A Kumasi circuit court on Friday granted a 100 million cedis' bail with two sureties each to two teenagers for allegedly gang raping 15-year-old JSS three pupil at CPC, a suburb of Kumasi.
Augustine Aboagye, 19, a trader and Osei Kwa…
UN chief Kofi Annan, on his first visit to the Middle East in four years, said he was encouraged by developments in the peace process after talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
"The International Community is determined to work…
Participants at a regional workshop on "Land Policy Reform", in Tamale have cautioned chiefs and land owners against the indiscriminate sale of land.
They contended that as a result of the rural/urban migration, chiefs easily sold la…
Prof Dominic Fobi, the Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines, has denied speculation in certain circles that the inventory exercise of state occupied lands the government is undertaking was a ploy to acquire more land from the chiefs.
…
Hundreds of well wishers clapped and chanted "Long live the pope," heartened by the sight of a seemingly alert John Paul II who blessed them from his car as he left his Roman hospital on Sunday.
With the inside light of his silver peo…
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday that Syria's pledge to pull its troops from Lebanon was "positive," but said Washington will continue to press Damascus to comply with a UN resolution calling for a full withdrawal.
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A UN envoy is to travel to Syria on Thursday to ask Damascus for a date for the withdrawal of its troops required under a UN resolution, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday.
"I hope the envoy will be able to come back with …
The Islamic Army in Iraq has taken two Sudanese men hostage for collaborating with US forces, according to a video and statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday.
Mohammad Harun Hammad and Maher Attaya were abducted for…
Russia has more than one million street children, and one crime in four involves underage youths, Russia's chief prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov said on Wednesday.
"Officially, the number of children without supervision is more than 700,0…
A teenager on Wednesday admitted giving authorities contradictory accounts of seeing Michael Jackson sexually molest his then 13-year-old brother in the superstar's bed.
While grilling the 14-year-old brother of Jackson's accuser for …
The British government on Wednesday unveiled two stamps to commemorate the wedding next month of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and Camilla Parker Bowles.
The couple are pictured in an informal and relaxed mood on a f…
The notorious Gambino crime family, one of New York's five big "La Cosa Nostra" mafia clans, was dealt a severe blow Wednesday with the arrest of its top two acting leaders and the arrest or indictment of 30 others associated with the grou…
Unilever Ghana Limited (UGL) on Thursday presented 24 used computers valued at 48 million cedis to nine first and second cycle schools in the Tema municipality to enable the children get abreast with the computer age.
Making the pre…
A Palestinian gunman from the radical Islamic Jihad faction was killed by Israeli gunfire in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Israeli military sources said.
The Palestinian was killed as he opened fire on soldiers from within a hou…
Papa Owusu Ankoma, Minister of the Interior on Thursday said the Government would ensure that the rights of Ghanaians living abroad illegally, was respected in accordance with international human right standards.
He said his outfit h…
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister Designate, on Tuesday proposed that 40 percent of appointments of District Chief Executives (DCEs) be reserved for women.
She made the proposal in a keynote address read for h…
Mr Yaw Barimah, the Eastern Regional Minister, has urged regional heads of public and civil services to work together to make the region the beacon to others in socio-economic development.
Addressing his first official meeting with …
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