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A tanker owners' group has urged governments to do more to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean, saying hijackings could disrupt global oil supplies. It said Somali pirates were now using at least 20 seized vessels as mother ships to launch…

Google Inc and Facebook Inc, plus others, have held low level takeover talks with Twitter that give the Internet sensation a value as high as $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. In December, Twitter raised $200 million in…

Police investigating alleged phone hacking are to write to 3,000 people telling them their details have been found on seized documents. Officers will contact people named on papers confiscated six years ago from Glenn Mulcaire, the private…

A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude. Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil…

The GSE-Composite Index (GSE-CI), the benchmark measure of performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange, slipped for the second session in a row down 1.24 points to 1,049.11 points from 1,050.35 points. The year-to-date now stands at 4.91 per…

Ghana’s inflation for January 2011 is 9.1%, the Ghana Statistical Service has said today. The inflation rate for December 2010 was 8.58%, the lowest since 1992. Mr. Ebo Duncan, Head of Statistics at the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS),…

Ghana is ranked at 114th on the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index report for the year 2010 to 2011. The first report was released in 1979. The country has been cited for its strong public institutions and relatively…

Member states of the Interim Guinea Current Commission (IGCC) who share the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) begin a two-day meeting with potential development partners on February 17 in Cameroon, according to a statement…

The Member of Parliament for Gomoa East, Mr Ekow Okyere Panyin, and District Chief Executive for Gomoa East, Mr Kingsley Ehunu-Armah, on Monday joined officials of the Ghana Water Company to witness the first test pumping of water from the…

Stakeholders under the Behaviour Change Support Project (BCSP) that promotes the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals health targets, met in Accra on Tuesday to brainstorm among other issues on the implementation of the second…