January 2010

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) wants the leadership of the Association in the Ashanti region to take a lead role in engaging local government authorities to seek the interest of small businesses. Act 462 of the Local…

Night club owners in Cape Coast, the Central regional capital of Ghana are blaming churches for the drop in business, The Mirror reports. Most revelers, they say do not patronize their clubs because of the churches. According to the…

Nigeria's main militant group called off a three-month-old ceasefire in the Niger Delta on Saturday and threatened to unleash "an all-out assault" on Africa's biggest oil and gas industry. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger…

Oil prices fell 1 percent to below $73 a barrel on Friday, marking a more than 8 percent loss for the month, as lagging energy demand outweighed stronger-than-expected U.S. economic data. U.S. oil for March delivery fell 75 cents to settle…

Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda apologized for the recall of millions of vehicles around the world, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported, as the deepening recall crisis threatened to further damage its sales and delay an earnings…

China angrily summoned the U.S. ambassador on Saturday and warned that a plan to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan would harm already strained ties. One Chinese expert said the sale would give Beijing a "fair and proper reason" to…

A woman whose noisy sex sessions were officially branded anti-social behaviour is liable to find herself behind bars if she fails to stop excessively loud lovemaking, a court has ruled. A woman whose noisy sex sessions were officially…

People who carry a few extra pounds after age 70 tend to live longer than people who don’t, new research finds. Overweight older adults who took part in the Australian study had a clear survival advantage over those who were normal weight,…

A cigar which Sir Winston Churchill left unfinished in 1941 has fetched £4,500 at a sale. Auctioneers Keys, of Aylsham, Norfolk, said Sir Winston abandoned the stub to attend a cabinet meeting. It was picked up by a Downing Street valet…

A man returning from Ghana has been arrested in the US with nearly seven pounds of heroin in his suitcase. The Baltimore Sun reports that, the man, who lives in Baltimore, 26-year-old Suleiman Zakaria was arrested at the…