Liverpool began their pre-season campaign with a 2-1 loss against Danish side Brondby, with Ferhan Hasani netting a stoppage-time winner for the hosts. Substitute Hasani had already served warning of his goal threat with a superb free-kick that crashed against Brad Jones’ crossbar. And the Macedonia international’s slaloming run and classy finish in the 91st minute ...

At least 14 Tunisian soldiers have been killed in a militant attack near the Algerian border with at least 20 others wounded, the defence ministry says. They say gunmen, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles, raided two checkpoints near Mount Chaambi. It is reportedly the heaviest death toll registered by the army since independence in ...

Ace lawyer Dr. Maurice Ampaw has called on the police service to arrest Asamoah Gyan, the skipper of the Black Stars in connection with the disappearance of popular musician Theophilus Tagoe, affectionately called ‘Castro the Destroyer’ The hiplife star was last seen on the Volta estuary when he and Janet Bandu  went jet skiing in ...

Finance minister Seth Tekper has defended the airlifting of 3 million dollars to the black stars in Brazil during the World Cup. The money was used to pay the appearance fees of the black stars players after they threatened to boycott Ghana’s final group game against Portugal. The players were reportedly paid 100 thousand dollars ...

The Black Stars of Ghana are still counting the costs of a disastrous World Cup campaign after the latest FIFA ranking saw them slip to 38 in the world and drop out of Africa’s top four countries for the first time in almost six years. Ghana gained only one point in Brazil amid bickering over ...

Bayern Munich midfielder Toni Kroos has joined Real Madrid for an undisclosed fee on a six-year deal. Kroos, 24, was a key player in the Germany side which beat Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup and scored two goals during the competition in Brazil. He will be presented to the Real Madrid fans at ...

Julius Debrah, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, on Wednesday held a meeting with the Executives of the Plastic Waste Management Programme, Ghana, to deliberate on how to expand plastic waste recycling plants. The meeting also touched on how the companies in the plastic waste industry could access the Plastic Waste Recycling Fund collected ...

Samini has just launched the “Samini Light A Million Lives”, an ambitious project to distribute One Million solar lanterns across the length and breadth of Ghana, as part of his 10 years in music.  As part of the project, the multiple award-winning  musician will distribute one million pieces of solar powered lanterns in deprived communities ...

Mexico is restricting television advertising for high-calorie food and soft drinks, as part of its campaign against obesity, the government says. Such ads will be banned with immediate effect on terrestrial and cable TV between 14:30 and 19:30 on weekdays and between 07:30 and 19:30 at weekends. Restrictions will also be imposed on similar ads ...

Street children in Uganda face constant abuse from police and other government officials, a human rights group says. Police beat children with whips and wires, throw them into jail and extort bribes from them, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. Street boys and girls were also raped by men and older boys, it ...

Brendan Rodgers insists Liverpool did everything they could to keep hold of Luis Suarez prior to his move to Barcelona. The Catalan giants announced on Wednesday that the controversial Uruguayan was “100 per cent” a Barca player, although the striker was conspicuous by his absence at a press conference due to his four-month FIFA ban ...

Ghana may be in danger of incurring the wrath of world football body, FIFA, following Government’s establishment of a Commission to investigate events leading to the country’s abysmal performance at the 2014 World Cup. The three-paragraph letter from FIFA, questioned the Ghana Football Association on the composition and competences of the Commission set up by Government. ...

The group,  Concerned Ghanaians For Responsible Governance (CGRG) is asking the government to publish a breakdown of all levies paid per litre of fuel for the sake of transparency. The group has announced its second week of the #RedFriday campaign will discuss the 23% increment in fuel prices by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA). A statement issued ...

The New Patriotic Party has decided on August,31 as the date for its special congress. The First Vice Chairman of the party, Freddy Blay, told Citi News on Tuesday that the National Executive of the party had submitted a proposal to the National Council, requesting that the Special Congress be held on August, 30. The ...

Fire officials say a West Seattle man was using a lighter and a can of spray paint to kill a spider in his laundry room when the house went up in flames. Fire crew were called to a home in the 10200 block of 34th Avenue SW just before 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Firefighters originally ...

A Ghanaian law professor in the United States of America, Stephen Kwaku Asare, says he has instituted legal proceedings against the ‘unlawful activities’ of the Constitution Review Implementation Committee (CRIC). Professor Asare, in a statement released on Wednesday, challenged the legitimacy of the CRIC, which was set up by the government to deliberate and make ...

Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson  has revealed that government will not cancel any of the projects which was supposed to be financed by the  $3 billion China Development Bank (CDB) loan. ”…I can assure you that we have not cancelled any particular project; it’s about the fact that we have decided to change the ...

Spanish football club Real Madrid has topped an annual Forbes list of the world’s most valuable sports teams. The club, who won the Champions League in May, is worth an estimated $3.44bn (£2bn), Forbes said. The top three slots are occupied by football clubs, with Barcelona in second place at $3.2bn, and Manchester United third, ...

The representative of German player, Mesut Ozil, has come out to deny claims that the player has donated his world cup winnings to Gaza, but revealed that the player did donate money to projects in Brazil. The player, practising Muslim originally from Turkey, was said to have donated his winnings from Germany’s World Cup win ...

In the morning of July 1, 2014, I joined a small group of red clad Ghanaians under the tag Concerned Ghanaians for Responsible Governance at the Efua Sutherland Park in Accra to register our concern at the poor governance of our dear country through a street protest which was originally planned to culminate in our ...