Ghana launches African Healthy Lifestyle Day

Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Health on Friday launched the African Healthy Lifestyle Day in Accra, with a call on the public to eat healthy food to live long. He said exercises and eating the right and nutritious food could help…

Brazil companies post profits

Brazil's two biggest companies have posted record profits for 2010, in the latest sign of the South American nation's growing economic might. The oil giant Petrobras - which is partly state-owned - made $20bn (£12.4bn). The mining company…

US freezes Gaddafi assets

The Obama administration froze assets of the Libyan government, leader Moammar Gadhafi and four of his children Friday, just hours after it closed the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli and evacuated its remaining staff. U.S. officials said…