Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Parliamentary committee report suggests passive approach by police and CPS along with lack of evidence has resulted in prosecution failures. Date - 4th July 2014. By - Jasmin McDermott - Police Oracle. The police are "far too passive" in the way they deal ...

Ciara is a bride-to-be who knows what she wants. For her wedding to rapper Future, the singer is planning an indoor, black-tie event. "For the palette, I'm not into loud colors," she told Brides magazine. "I like black and white, classic and clean." Ciara Shares ...

Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice's decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google (GOOG) has received about 50,000 requests for Web pages to be removed from European search results. One of the requests it has ...

TEL AVIV—Israel authorities were delaying the release of the body of a Palestinian teenager for burial to prevent more street clashes between protesters and Israeli security forces, a relative of the boy said Thursday. With nerves already on edge in Jerusalem ...

Eugenie Bouchard has taken the first set 7-6 against Simona Halep, winning 7-5 in a tiebreaker in the Wimbledon semi-finals. The two swapped breaks in the third and fourth games of the set which were followed by a medical break as trainers taped Halep's ...

The European Central Bank is taking a leaf out of the Federal Reserve's book and will, starting next year, set monetary policy every six weeks instead of every month as well as publish minutes to its deliberations. After the bank decided to keep its interest rates ...

Brazil's coach Luiz Felipe Scolari embraces Brazil's Neymar after the World Cup round of 16 football match between Brazil and Chile at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Brazil won 3-2 on penalties. Photo: AP.

Reclaiming “all of the historic Palestine from the river to the sea” within the next five years should be the region's national goal, say 60 percent of Palestinians, according to a recent poll. The study, commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, ...

USA fans react during the 2014 World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Belgium and the U.S. at a viewing party in Redondo Beach, California July 1, 2014. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters. Tweet. AA. Filed Under: Sports, World Cup. Domingo did not wear his ...

Brazil vs Colombia Friday, July 4, 2014. Estadio Castelao, Fortaleza Kick-off: 21.00 BST. TV: ITV. Brazil (Possible, 4-2-3-1): Cesar; Alves, Silva, Luiz, Marcelo; Fernandinho, Gustavo; Hulk, Oscar, Neymar; Fred. Colombia (Possible, 4-4-2): Ospina; Zúñiga, ...

Canada's privacy watchdog says Facebook's emotional manipulation study "raises some questions" that the agency is following up on with its international counterparts. Canada's privacy commissioner says it will contact the company for details on Facebook's ...

The U.S. economy created a larger-than-expected 288,000 nonfarm jobs in June while the jobless rate fell 0.2 percentage point from the previous month to 6.1 percent, the lowest since September 2008, Labor Department data showed Thursday.

Andy Murray crashed out of Wimbledon, but he will not be sanctioned after his mini-meltdown on Centre Court. The Scot lost in straight sets to Grigor Dimitrov, making 37 unforced errors during his surprise defeat to the 23-year-old Bulgarian, ending a ...

The US embassy in Uganda warned Thursday of a "specific threat" by an unknown group to attack Entebbe international airport, which serves the capital Kampala. The alert came as travellers flying to the United States from Europe and the Middle East faced ...

The US embassy in Uganda warned Thursday of a "specific threat" by an unknown group to attack Entebbe international airport, which serves the capital Kampala. The alert came as travellers flying to the United States from Europe and the Middle East faced ...

The US embassy in Uganda warned Thursday of a "specific threat" by an unknown group to attack Entebbe international airport, which serves the capital Kampala. The alert came as travellers flying to the United States from Europe and the Middle East faced ...

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region asked its parliament on Thursday to plan a referendum on Kurdish independence, signalling his impatience with Baghdad, which is fighting to repel Sunni insurgents and struggling to ...

[FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank held its key interest rates unchanged at its regular policy meeting on Thursday, a month after taking unprecedented measures to ease monetary conditions in the 18-country euro area. As widely expected, the ECB's ...

[FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank held its key interest rates unchanged at its regular policy meeting on Thursday, a month after taking unprecedented measures to ease monetary conditions in the 18-country euro area. As widely expected, the ECB's ...