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The founder of scandal-hit Indian software company Satyam has been arrested two days after he admitted falsifying the firm's accounts. Ramalinga Raju, who stood down as Satyam's chairman on Wednesday, is charged with offences including…

A nine-year-old girl, allegedly kidnapped by her grandmother, has been found using a mobile phone signal and Google Street View. A police officer and a firefighter in Athol, Massachusetts, joined forces after authorities were alerted that…

Mr Ernest Tutu Mensah, a 50-year-old Sunyani-based driver, on Friday won a 2008 model Suzuki Grand Vitara prize when Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of TIGO telecommunication network, held a draw for its "Top up and Win" promotion. The…

A 25-year-old trader who allegedly defiled a 13 year-old girl appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra on Friday charged with defilement. Emmanuel Baafi pleaded not guilty. The court remanded him into prison custody to reappear on January…

A 27-year-old ex-convict who broke into the bedroom of a lecturer to steal two laptop computers and chargers, pen drives and a mobile phone was on Friday sentenced to eight years imprisonment by a Circuit Court in Accra. Charles Selormey…

The 60th Annual New Year School held by the Institute of Adult Education (IAE) ended last night with a challenge to the organizers to go beyond media dissemination of the communiqué and practically circulate copies among all stakeholders…

Samia Nkrumah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Jomoro, on Friday said she would not be aligned with the majority NDC in Parliament but preferred to do business in the House guided by national interests and those of her constituents in…

African workers under the umbrella of the Organisation of  African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) have expressed their unflinching solidarity with the struggling Palestinian workers and people to regain their inalienable rights to…

Typhoid fever and tuberculosis have been identified as the most common communicable diseases among traditional caterers popularly known in Ghana as “chop bar keepers”, according to a report carried by the Ghana News Agency (GNA). This…

Behind the latest unemployment figures showing another 500,000-plus Americans lost their jobs is a sad truth: The deeper the recession becomes, the more it touches people whose livelihoods have never been threatened by dark financial times.…