Not Just For DrinkingThe word "vodka" is more likely to bring up thoughts of cosmos and Carrie Bradshaw than Mr. Clean and his ilk, but you might be surprised at how handy your favorite spirit can be around the house. Clear and virtually odorless, vodka's 40% alcohol content makes it good for a wide variety of home uses -- from cleaning to beautifying -- without leaving stains or odors. Here's how to put vodka to work at home (and we won't tell if you take a nip or two yourself).

As I boarded an Ethiopian Airline flight out of the city of Addis Ababa back to the city of my birth—Accra, it dawned on me that this is an African city that is rising. Addis has great potential. In May 1963 at the founding of the Organization of African Unity, our first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah declared: ‘Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God!’ Why didn’t Nkrumah prophesy that Ghana ‘shall stretch forth her hands unto God’ considering how much he loved Ghana?

(CNN) -- Iranian centrist candidate Hassan Rouhani has won the Islamic republic's presidential election, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced Saturday.

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) would next year introduce a biometric registration and instant issuance of identification cards to subscribers.

As the ongoing Presidential election petition case at the Supreme Court is getting to a crescendo, youth activists of political parties in the Northern Region have been cautioned against utterances and actions that could throw the prevailing harmony in the area into jeopardy.

Living conditions in Ghana’s rural areas are improving faster than in the urban centres, the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Baba Jamal, claims.

Ghana is recording successes in its efforts to eradicate poliomyelitis. The last polio outbreak in the country, which were all imported cases, was recorded in 2008.

But of course you know that you are not, and thank God for that. How can such a foul-mouthed wretch of a maverick from Saltpond be President? But even though this is not a constitutional right, why not leave me free to day-dream until such an act becomes classified as a subversive or treasonable act. Please allow me to day-dream.

We all have 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. It’s fixed, and like it or not, that’s the way it is.

Barely six months after being pardoned, following his plea for forgiveness and a pledge not to steal  again, Yakubu Adams, 27, has once again stolen a pregnant goat that belongs to the same owner he previously stole a nanny goat from at Agona Mankrong.

Two policemen in the Brong Ahafo Region have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment each by the Fiapre Circuit Court on a three-count charge of conspiracy, stealing and offering a rifle and ammunition belonging to the Ghana Police Service for sale.

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) recorded 2,201 fire outbreaks nationwide between January and April this year.

The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has expressed the government’s resolve to uphold religious tolerance in the country towards national development.

It was shot in Ghana in 2006 but King Ampaw’s No Time To Die film has still not been commercially released in Ghana though it has shown at several festivals in Europe and America.

TV Africa, in collaboration with Film Africa, had been working at it over the last year and a half and they think the time is ripe for the new television programme called My Life, My Story (Medadwen) to start airing.

Ghanaian singer, Stephanie Benson, breezed into town from London  earlier in the  week to prepare for the launch of her two new singles  in Accra on Sunday, June 30.

The government has made available GH¢6.5m to continue work on the abandoned 960-bed capacity Maternal and Child Health Block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.

The Tamale Government Secretarial School was established in 1952, as one of the seven secretarial schools and other training schools set up by the government to train secretaries to work in the civil and public services.

The Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA) has called on the Public Utilities and Regulation Commission (PURC) not to rush into giving into the demands of tariff increment being demanded by the utility providers.

The authorities in South Sudan are preventing the provision of humanitarian assistance to some 120,000 people hiding in malaria-infested swamps, a medical charity has said.