Madagascar is to receive a total of 110 million US dollars, as the contribution of the United States towards a four-year project aimed at reducing poverty by expanding the property rights for the country's citizens, expanding banking and f…
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Monaco will have reason to be feeling aggrieved after their 2-2 draw with Auxerre on Sunday, a result which left Didier Deschamps' side short of moving up to third position in the French league.
After Lyon affirmed their ambitions to…
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.
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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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Hamas's decision to take part in the Palestinian election in July could be the beginning of a major switch that takes the Islamist group from
a resistance movement to political faction, analysts said.
Saturday's announcement that it…
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson basked in his team's passage into the FA Cup semi-finals and insisted last week's heartbreaking Champions League exit will make his side stronger.
United brushed aside Southampton 4-0 at St Mar…
Kerron Clement of Trinidad broke American great Michael Johnson's 10-year-old 400m indoor world record here Saturday, clocking 44.57sec at the NCAA US collegiate indoor athletics championships.
Clement, 19 and representing the Univers…
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Zebi Football Club, Greater Accra Second Division campaigners on Monday invited its old players as well as new players interested in joining the club to report for justifiers at the Club's training grounds at the La Town Park in Accra.
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Dutch international defender Jaap Stam has extended his contract with former European champions AC Milan till the end of the 2007 season, the club said here Wednesday.
"I'll finish my career at Milan," said the 32-year-old Stam, who j…
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…
The European Commission called on Wednesday on Russia to respect human rights and work for a political solution to the Chechen conflict, after the killing of rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov by Russian forces.
The European Union (EU)'s ex…
UN chief Kofi Annan was Thursday to deliver a global strategy for fighting terrorism on the eve of commemorations in Madrid for the train bombings a year ago that ranks as one of the worst attacks ever in Europe.
The leader of the wor…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday called on member countries of the Commonwealth to rededicate themselves to the values and goals of the club.
In a message to celebrate Commonwealth Day which falls on Monday March 14, Preside…
The Tema Regional Officer of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Mr Morgan Ayawine, has called on local unions and management of companies to re-strategise and apply achievable methods in production to ensure expansion and j…
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways reported Wednesday a 2004 net profit of 4.42 billion Hong Kong dollars (567 million US dollars), more than triple the 1.3 billion dollars posted in a disastrous SARS-hit 2003.
Analysts ha…
Dr Ato Quayson, Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, at the weekend urged Ghanaian students in the Diaspora to return home and assist in national reconstruction after the completion of their academic programmes.…
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 …
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has launched the first phase of the computerisation and networking of the Town and Country Planning Department and other development control and management sections of the assembly in Kumasi.
T…
The United States has promised an early answer to new European proposals for persuading Iran to renounce its suspected nuclear weapons ambitions, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday.
The official, who asked not to be …
Mr Joe Kingsley Hackman, NPP-Gomoa West, on Thursday urged the Attorney - General's Department to fast track the prosecution of criminals as soon as they were arrested to deter other robbers and social miscreants.
He also recommended…
Negotiations on the revision of the Cotonou Agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries ended in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday with an agreement to improve political dialogue on human rights, democratic principle…
Peter Anno, a 23- year old Farmer, has been remanded into prison custody by the Techiman Circuit Court for defrauding one Mr Kwadwo Ameyaw of 6.3 million cedis.
Anno pleaded not guilty to two counts of intent to fraud and defrauding …
The Accra City Campus (ACC) of the University of Ghana on Friday celebrated its first Students' Representative Council (SRC) anniversary week with the launch of a news magazine that would serve as a mouthpiece for students.
The 24-page…
Mr. Charles Kallah, Brong-Ahafo Regional Secretary of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has urged teachers to live above reproach so that the Association would have the moral courage to defend them and fight for improvement in…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) is committed to the welfare and safe environment of communities of its operations, Ms Abla Fiadjoe, Manager of Community Relations of the Authority, has stated.
She gave the assurance at Yeji, capital …
Mr. Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister of Communications, attending the second Preparatory Meeting (PrepCom) of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland, has presented Africa's decisions arrived at during the just…
Two men killed four children and seriously wounded at least eight others Sunday at an indoor skating rink in China's northwest region of Xinjiang, before one of them committed suicide, state media said.
The two unidentified men rushed…
Judah I Music Productions and Promotions, would on Sunday March 6, stage a free charity dance at the Naa Seidu Bomi Park at Wa to support orphanages and other institutions and destitutes in the Upper West Region.
Ras Edorh Anani Amewn…
Nothing appears to be going right for six-time German champions Borussia Dortmund at the moment with acute financial problems off the pitch mirrored on the playing field.
It has certainly been a week to forget for the 1997 Champions L…
US President George W. Bush urged Russia on Monday to "renew a commitment to democracy and the rule of law" and said Europe and the United States should make such reforms central to relations with
Moscow.
Days before he was due to m…
The main benchmark of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) slumped again in trading on Monday on a huge loss by Unilever.
The GSE All-Share Index lost 44.51 points at 6,795.47 points from Friday's close of 6,839.98.98 points.
Change…
Australian media group John Fairfax Holdings voiced optimism Monday about boosting its earnings over the coming six months after posting a strong 26 percent jump in net profit for the half-year to December 31.
Outgoing chief executive…
A Tarkwa Circuit court, presided over by Mr. John Aject Nasam on Friday jailed Mr. Ellis Anane, 58, a businessman based at Tarkwa, 20 years for defiling a 14-year old girl.
Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Alex Asamoah of Tarkwa poli…
World Vision Australia (WVA), an International Non-governmental Organisation, has made a donation of medical supplies worth 100 million cedis to the Atua Government Hospital in the Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region.
The item…
Tainted referee Robert Hoyzer has fuelled the escalating German match-fixing scandal by claiming that for two years now German football clubs have been inviting referees into brothels prior to matches.
According to Spiegel magazine Ho…
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