Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, has said the video showing the apparent beheading of a US journalist by an Islamic State fighter was 'an appalling example of the brutality of this organisation'. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA. Philip Hammond, the ...

Speculation over Angel Di Maria's future at Real Madrid has never been more intense after the club's latest round of buying spectacular attacking talent but the Argentine's cameo in the first leg of the Spanish Supercopa on Tuesday was a big reminder of his ...

The Government Statistician, Dr. (Mrs) Philomena Nyarko, has appealed to business operators not to be nervy over the upcoming Integrated Business Survey (IBES) because it is not for purposes of taxation. She said the survey was only an economic census to be conducted in all economic units of every sector of the Ghanaian economy to provide a register of businesses in the [...] The post IBES Not For Taxation— Statistician appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

FERGUSON (REUTERS, AFP) – Police said Wednesday they had arrested 47 people during a night of protests in Ferguson, the Missouri town rocked by violence over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri ...

AS part of efforts to ad-dress the shortfall in Ghana’s public power supply, global infrastructure giants General Electric (GE) is working with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to provide substantial financing to the tune of $500m. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an innovative and independent U.S. foreign aid agency that is championing a global campaign against poverty. This funding [...] The post MCC To Provide GE $500m For Ghana’s Power appeared first on The Ghanaian

The BBC looks at what it is like to be a cyclist in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi.

The Chairman of the West Africa Commission on Drugs, Olusegun Obasanjo and Kofi Annan, Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, will today meet with Ghana’s President, John Mahama, Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss regional responses to the growing drugs threat in West Africa. In June, the West Africa ...

A leading member of Ghana’s main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to Ghanaians to continue having faith in the party because all is not lost. Ghanaians on Tuesday expressed a vote of no confidence in the NPP after a press briefing at the party’s headquarters turned bloody. Angry youth of the ...

It doesn't take a PhD to understand what the game is. And Israelis – even many with PhDs – understand what is happening. IDF soldier in Gaza tunnel. AN ISRAELI army officer explains to journalists how Hamas built tunnels to attack the country.

The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E Jeeva Sagar has called on the government to end poverty, maintaining that poverty is still a scourge in the country.