2021

Heart disease more than any other health condition will be the common cause of death in 2021 and beyond, if the trend continues and nothing is done. The world’s biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 16 per cent of…

The Central Region Police Command has secured a Court order to restrain the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from embarking on a protest march in the Effutu Constituency on Tuesday, January 5. The prohibition order was granted by the…

The Most Reverend Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Coast, says the country’s future is bright. He has, therefore, called on Ghanaians to demonstrate patriotism and eschew any form of pessimism.…

More women, who give birth at the Bono Regional Hospital in Sunyani, prefer Caesarean Section (CS) to normal deliveries, Mrs Susan Tiwaa, the Midwife in-charge of Maternity at the Regional hospital, has said. She said the women were…

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg won international attention after she began a lone school strike outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018. On Sunday, she turns 18, giving her, for instance, the right to marry, to…

The German government has approved arms exports worth more than a billion euros in 2020 to countries involved in conflict in Yemen and Libya. For Egypt alone, exports of weapons and military equipment worth 752 million euros (913 million…

The United States tallied a grim number on the first day of 2021, with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic began reaching more than 20 million. That amount corresponds to about a quarter of all infections…

Harvest season had just begun in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and the coffee plants stood ripe and ready. But there was no one working at many of the farms. Joaquin Solorzano, a coffee farmer and advocate for Nicaraguan growers, pointed at the…

The US Senate voted on Friday to override US President Donald Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a major national security bill worth $740 billion. The vote marked the first veto override of the Trump…

Accra Hearts of Oak recorded their third successive win in the ongoing Ghana Premier League after beating Bechem United 6-1 in a match-day seven encounter played at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday. It was an emphatic victory for the…