2008

President Robert Mugabe said Friday that “Zimbabwe is mine” and vowed never to surrender, saying no African nation was brave enough to topple him. Responding to an American envoy’s call on Thursday to step down, the latest of many such…

The Institute of Adult Education (IAE) on Friday announced that the 2009 Annual New Year School would be held from January 2 to 9, to provide another platform for dialogue on issues affecting the country. There has been a change in the…

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning on Friday clarified several issues concerning payroll administration. The following is the full text of a statement on the subject signed by Mr Anthony Akoto Osei, Minister of State, Ministry…

Ghana intends to spend $775 million on a plant to process natural gas from the Jubilee oil and gas field which was discovered last year, the President’s press secretary, Andrew Awuni has said. The plant, to be built at Atuabo in the…

Ballot papers to be used in the December 28 presidential run-off are to be released by the printing firms to the Electoral Commission (EC) on Saturday. The EC said immediately after taking delivery of the papers, it would release the…

Mark Felt, the former FBI official who revealed himself to be Deep Throat, the source that exposed the Nixon-era Watergate scandal, has died. His family says he died at a hospice near his home in California, aged 95. Deep Throat helped…

The US government will provide $17.4bn (£11.6bn) in loans to troubled carmakers GM, Chrysler and Ford. President George W Bush said allowing the US car industry to fail would not be "a responsible course of action". Carmakers will get…

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A 26-year-old Ghanaian student in India was lucky to escape lynching by enraged motorists and passersby, when he was rescued by police, the Times of India has reported. The student enraged motorists and passersby when he attacked and…

Scientists say that as climate change increases, the world’s chocolate supply could start to run low. Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cocoa tree and in recent years demand has risen worldwide. But diseases destroy a third of the…