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European stocks dropped for a third straight week, the longest stretch of losses since March, as concern mounted that the economy won’t recover soon. Volkswagen AG slumped 6.3 percent, leading declines in automakers, after U.S. car sales…

British authorities have started an investigation into millions of dollars of payments from the operations of the convicted money manager Bernard L. Madoff to companies linked to the Austrian banker Sonja Kohn, an Austrian official…

The African Union says it will halt co-operation with the International Criminal Court over its decision to charge Sudan's leader with war crimes. President Omar al-Bashir was indicted over alleged atrocities in the Darfur region in…

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.…

An update was just released stating that Ibrahim Essandoh, the Vancouver resident who desperately needs a kidney transplant, will now be allowed to receive a kidney donated by his brother, Thomas. Clement Apaak, spokesperson for Ibrahim…

Nigeria, Niger and Algeria have signed an agreement to build a multi-billion dollar pipeline to take Nigerian gas across the Sahara to the Mediterranean. The giant project, which will cost an estimated $13bn (£8bn), aims to deliver up to…

The body of a man has been found in the undercarriage of an aircraft at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex. Engineers discovered the body during a routine safety inspection after the Ghana Airlines flight GU101 from Accra landed at about 0700…

Multichoice Ghana has partnered with Afric Xpress to introduce the ‘txtNpay’ electronic payment system to DStv subscriber which has enhanced the ease of payment of DStv subscription. Mr. Aaron Ampofo, Operations Manager, MultiChoice Ghana…

It is so near but so very far. The Kalakpa Resource Reserve, largely within the Ho Municipal Area, is supposed to be excluded to human settlement but yet it is populated by hordes of people.      That is where the Volta Region Division of…

The International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Government of Ghana and its social partners have for the past six years been strategizing through a number of interventions to combat poverty in rural and peri-urban areas through its Decent…