Media houses attend business seminar

A two-day business seminar, to build the capacity of some selected media houses in the country opened in Kumasi on Thursday. The Ghana Media Standards Improvement Project (GMSIP) is organizing the event in collaboration with the Ghana…

US poverty rate up to 14.3% in 2009

The U.S. poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent in 2009 from 13.2 percent the year before, bringing the percentage of the population living in poverty to the highest level since 1994, as the economic downturn took its toll on jobs, the…

College shuts Facebook for a week

A central Pennsylvania technological college with fewer students than many Facebook users have friends is blacking out social media for a week. The bold experiment at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology — which has drawn…