Ciera Ross, a mother of two, has been arrested and charged with raping a man. According to CBS Chicago, Ross and a friend were driving on the North Side of Chicago when they saw a man walking down the street in late July. Ross, 25, stopped and asked the 33-year-old man if he wanted ...

The Black Stars of Ghana got their 2015 AFCON qualifiers to the worst possible start after a messy draw with the Flames of Uganda.The scoreline however flatters the star-laden Ghanaians who needed a big favour from Tunisian referee Said Kordi to achieve that feat. Here are my three points from the match 1.Fatau Dauda is ...

Police in Bawku in the Upper East region have told Citi News only two people have so far surrendered their weapons to the security agencies in exchange for cash. Government asked residents in the area to submit their guns to the Police in a bid to rid the town of illegal arms being used to perpetrate killings ...

Serena Williams beat Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets to win her sixth US Open and 18th Grand Slam title. The American, ranked one in the world, won 6-3 6-3 at Flushing Meadows in New York. After a poor start from both players, Williams steadied herself to take the first set and found something approaching her ...

Scotland’s opening Euro 2016 qualifier ended in defeat by world champions Germany thanks to two goals from Thomas Muller. He headed the opener in a first half completely dominated by the hosts. The Scots rode their luck in the first half but lifted their game after the break and levelled through Ikechi Anya. But poor ...

Albania - ranked 70th in the world  - produced a major surprise as Portugal’s Euro 2016 Group I qualifying campaign got off to a terrible start in Aveiro. A volley from Bekim Balaj proved enough to sink the 2012 semi-finalists. Portugal were without Cristiano Ronaldo but still fielded a strong side that included included Manchester United’s on-loan Sporting ...

The Member of Parliament for Obuasi West and a member of Parliament’s Finance Committee is accusing the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) of manipulating the interbank foreign exchange rates. Kwaku Kwarteng described the act as illegal, saying it “deviates drastically from the official rates quoted by Ghanaian banks and rates prevailing in the ...

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has told Citi News that electricity tariffs are likely to go up again between October and December. Barely three months ago, electricity tariffs went up 12 percent and 6 percent for water. According to the Chief Executive of VRA Kirk Koffi, the price adjustment is crucial to sending the right ...

Dr Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah, Minister of Health, addressed the Annual General Meeting of District Directors of Health in Bolgatanga, with a call for multi-sectorial approach to facilitate effective and improved health delivery in the country. The conference which was on the theme: “Sustaining the Gains of MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) 4, 5 and 6: The Role ...

Kojo Bonsu, Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), has said that government is committed to improving access and school facilities to ensure girls stay in school. The government, he said, is determined to equip the girls with the relevant literacy skills to the benefit of the nation. According to him, the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) ...

Apple is to bolster iCloud security after intimate pictures of celebrities were stolen and published online, chief executive Tim Cook has said. Alerts sent to users will now include one when data is restored to a new device, Mr Cook told the Wall Street Journal. iCloud accounts may been broken into when hackers correctly guessed ...

  An Accra Fast High Court on Friday restrained the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and two of its affiliates from organizing the youth, women and executive elections in the Ningo Prampram Constituency. The NDC and two affiliate bodies of the party: the Ningo Constituency and the Greater Accra Regional Executive Committee, who were restrained, had ...

Vaccinated monkeys have developed “long-term” immunity to the Ebola virus, raising a prospect of successful human trials, say scientists. The experiments by the US National Institutes of Health showed immunity could last at least 10 months. Human trials of the vaccine started this week in the US and will extend to the UK and Africa. ...