UK home prices in sharp fall

U.K. house prices fell sharply in October from September while the year-to-year pace of house price growth rose at the slowest pace for more than a year, the Nationwide Building Society said Thursday. According to the mortgage lender,…

US college tuition shoots up

College tuition costs shot up again this fall, and students and their families are leaning more on the federal government to make higher education more affordable in tough economic times, according to two reports issued Thursday. At public…

Individuals need protection from Google

Millions of private Wi-Fi addresses captured. Millions of passwords and email addresses plucked out of thin air. The Google Street View episode is starting to look very serious indeed. The first rumours came earlier this year, when Google…

Over 340 die in Indonesia tsunami

The death toll from a tsunami and a volcano rose to more than 340 Thursday as more victims of Indonesia's double disasters were found and an official said a warning system installed after a deadly ocean wave in 2004 had broken from a lack…

Akyempim Rural Bank declares profit

The Akyempim Rural Bank at Gomoa Dawurampong in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region has declared a profit of GH¢113,320.00 for the year 2009, as against GH¢109,546.00 in the 2008 financial year. Col. Rtd K.K. Nyame, Chairman of…