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According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has confirmed a new security bug in Internet Explorer that lets hackers exploit this vulnerability to attack computers running the famous navigator of Redmond. It is also seen that, the bug is found in…

Some of the world's biggest banks have revealed they are victims of an alleged fraud which has lost $50bn (£33bn). Bernard Madoff, who was arrested on Thursday, has been charged with fraud in what is being described as one of the…

Modern Times Group MTG AB (publ.) (‘MTG’ or ‘the Group’), the international entertainment broadcasting group, today announced that it has launched a national terrestrial TV channel in Ghana in West Africa. The new channel is called Viasat1…

Some Ghanaians are complaining that Christmas gift-giving will be undermined by campaign spending for the December 28 presidential runoff election. Since the initial December 7 vote, huge amounts of contributions have been pouring into…

The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks' lower screening rates and poor access to quality care. Colon and rectal cancer death rates are now nearly 50 percent higher in…

Wealthy nations must be careful not to cause more suffering to the developing world as they take bolder steps to bolster their faltering economies, the World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, said  Sunday. Zoellick warned that poorer…

Not since Ghana played Brazil in the 2006 World Cup has the whole nation been galvanised around a single event as now. It is election time. Both a presidency and a parliament of 230 members are in the gift of the electorate. And how the…

It was 6:30 on a Saturday morning in mid-October when they knocked on the door of the small, second-floor apartment he shared with his beloved cat, Tiger. Edward Mensah is usually up then because he meets a group of guys every Saturday…

The national electronic payment system, e-zwich, has moved to another phase with a roll out of its services to cover rural banks, Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems, (GhIPSS) has said in Accra Saturday December 13, 2008. Since…

When the attackers arrived on the shores of Mumbai last month, they had studied satellite images of the city, were carrying handheld GPS sets and were communicating with their handlers via the Internet and satellite phone. Many of the…