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Kenyan Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta criticised parliamentarians for awarding themselves pay rises of up to 25 percent, newspapers reported on Saturday, but analysts said he had little power to resist them. MPs voted this week to raise…

Newspapers worldwide are being forced to reinvent themselves for the Internet age -- and will be watching closely the success of two experiments launched in London, analysts say. Suffering a long-term fall in sales and a collapse in…

A disappointing jobs report sent stocks falling Friday and gave the Dow Jones industrial average its longest losing streak since the worst days of the financial crisis. The Dow dropped 46 points Friday for its seventh straight loss and its…

An International Monetary Fund mission said on Saturday it had agreed to recommend a loan of $14.9 billion for Ukraine in a deal to help fill the country's budget gap and boost investor confidence. The deal commits the ex-Soviet republic…

Nearly $2bn (£1.3bn) in loan guarantees will be given to two companies to kick-start the US solar energy industry, President Barack Obama has announced. One of the firms, Abenoga Solar, says that it is planning to build the largest solar…

President John Evans Atta Mills pleads with Ghanaians not to “nail the Black Stars” for their loss at the quarter-final stage of the ongoing World Cup tournament in South Africa. The senior national team lost 4-2 on penalties to Uruguay…

For the first time in its seven-year history a Ghanaian journalist has won an award at the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2010. The journalist, Felix Dela Klutse of the Daily Guide newspaper won the Best Business News Story…

A Research scientist with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Dr Joseph K. Amoako, has recommended the regular monitoring of all base stations or telecom masts in the country to ensure that emissions from them stay within the…

The GSE All-Share Index, the main measure of performance on the Ghana Stock Exchange, fell 47.16 points to close the week at 6,543.94 points. Total volumes closed the session at 242,463 shares valued at GH¢207,883.81. On the broader…

Mr Jonas Osafo Adamu, Managing Director of Hambeg Farms, a budding poultry farm at Anum in the Eastern Region, has slammed governments over the years for paying lip-service to the development of the poultry industry in the country. He said…