BAMAKO, July 4 (Reuters) - Current gold reserves held by mining companies operating in Mali stand at 609.1 tonnes, down from 651.68 tonnes at the end of last year, figures from Mali's ministry of mines showed on Friday.

German goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, has indicated that the “Mannschaft” will have to improve on their performance from their previous four games at the tournament if they are to beat France in their quarter final encounter. According to him their current output as a team isn’t worthy of winning them the World Cup. “We are not ...

Catch all the live updates from the quarterfinal match between France and Germany at Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. (Scroll down for the Live Blog). A European presence in the World Cup semi-finals is assured as Germany and France meet at the Maracana, ...

The twelfth day in the month of June has been selected to offer social protection to children and thus help stop or reduce child labour.

With peak winds of 100 mph and a storm surge of 3 to 5 feet, Hurricane Arthur blasted North Carolina's Outer Banks overnight. The unusually strong early season hurricane is now accelerating to the Northeast, and its outer bands are likely to lash eastern New ...

A Cape Coast Magistrate's Court on Thursday sentenced three drivers, Baba Jibrine Adama, Kwaku Aboyawkwa and Issah Ibrahim, to a total of 23 months imprisonment in hard labour, for not paying a fine-conviction imposed on them for stealing three goats valued GH550 at Abura in the Central Region.

A Mankessim-based trader, Mavis Buckman, who posed as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) to dupe another trader of an amount of GH 9,900, was on Thursday granted bail by the Cape Coast Magistrates Court.

On a day of "dramatic developments", all 46 Indian women nurses were suddenly set free by Sunni militants ISIS in strife-torn Iraq and were being brought back home in a special Air India plane which left this evening for Erbil, a non-conflict zone. "The Indian ...

On a day of "dramatic developments", all 46 Indian women nurses were suddenly set free by Sunni militants ISIS in strife-torn Iraq and were being brought back home in a special Air India plane which left this evening for Erbil, a non-conflict zone. "The Indian ...

Equatorial Guinea are no longer in the race to face Ghana in the group phase of the qualifiers for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations as they have been disqualified for fielding an ineligible player.

Algeria forward Islam Slimani has revealed that he and his team-mates are donating their money to people in Gaza. The north African side won the hearts and minds of many with their heroic effort in pushing Germany to extra-time in their round of 16 World Cup clash. And now their display of generosity to the ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian soldiers blocked roads, fired shots into the air and burned several buses in Lagos on Friday after a soldier was killed in a bus accident, an episode residents said recalled the country's former military dictatorship.

BAMAKO, July 4 (Reuters) - Current gold reserves held by mining companies operating in Mali stand at 609.1 tonnes, down from 651.68 tonnes the previous year, figures from Mali's ministry of mines showed on Friday.

A seven-year-old Brazilian boy has been named after so many French football stars that he struggles to pronounce his own name. He is called Zinedine Yazid Zidane Thierry Henry Barthez Eric Felipe Silva Santos. The little Zidane, as he is simply known, can pronounce his first three names without a problem but stumbles after that. ...

Eugenie Bouchard stands on the brink of Wimbledon glory but her "boring" lifestyle includes no time for cultivating friendships on tour and no time for Laura Robson either. Canada's 20-year-old finalist confirmed on Friday that the days of she and Robson ...

When online fundraising in Nigeria is not a scam

The energy situation in the country is set to improve slightly following the completion of repair works on the Takoradi International Company (TICO) power plant. The plant was shut down for regular maintenance works which worsened the energy situation in the country. The 220 megawatts power plant was until recently producing only 110 megawatts; a ...