TEMASCO form one students to be day students

All the 500 students admitted to Form One at Tema Senior High School (TEMASCO) are to be day students' for two terms, until the completion of the new boys and girls dormitories. Mrs Elizabeth Ama Asare, Headmistress of TEMASCO, made this…

OPEC to benefit from dollar fall

OPEC nations seeking higher oil prices  to boost revenues may get their wish as the sliding dollar sees investment switch from the US currency and into crude and other commodities, according to analysts. Yet higher commodity prices, which…

FIFA investigates vote buying claims

Fifa is investigating allegations that two of its officials offered to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup. Reporters from The Sunday Times posed as lobbyists for a consortium of American companies who wanted to…

We waited for death – Chilean miner

Richard Villaroel holds up a red plastic bottle cap no bigger around than two of his fingers. Three-quarters full of canned tuna or salmon -- that's how little he ate every day in the Chilean mine that caved. And the mine water he drank…

Protests hit France pension reform

The battle over a planned overhaul of France's pension system has intensified, with hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the latest of a series of protests across the country. Labour unions said that more than 2.5 million…

Pirates seize South Korean boat

A South Korean fishing boat with 43 sailors aboard has been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Kenya, South Korea's foreign ministry says. The ministry said the crab fishing vessel was seized off Lamu Island on 9 October. South Korean…