President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

A multi-storey department store has collapsed in Ghana's capital, Accra, with many people believed to be trapped inside. Rescue efforts are under way, with police and fire personnel trying to pull people out of the rubble.

THE KOTOKA International airport in Accra yesterday received its fair share of the rampant power outages across the country as it was hit with total blackout for close to an hour.

President John Dramani Mahama has been forced to truncate his campaign tour to Bawku in the Upper East Region following the collapse of a multi-storey department store in the capital, Accra.

Mitt Romney delivered a powerful call for unity as he conceded defeat to Barack Obama in the presidential election, saying: 'I pray that the President will be successful in guiding our nation.'

Embattled Gifty Tehoda, a former Deputy Commander of the Commercial Crime Unit (CCU) of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, has accused the Deputy Director-General of the CID, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Vincent Dedzo, of being the principal character behind the swapping of cocaine with sodium bicarbonate.

The Madina Police are investigating a case in which a passenger on board a taxi is alleged to have mistakingly shot himself in the thigh leading to his death.

This yearÂ’s National Best Farmer says reports that his award was politically motivated are misplaced.

State Insurance Company Limited (SIC) is struggling to prevent the payment of a whopping GHC10 million to 12-year-old Samuel Awuku as general and compensatory damages.

President John Dramani Mahama has ordered the Rescue Team at the collapsed Melcom Shopping Center at Achimota to work 24 hours to ensure all trapped victims are rescued.

Information rife to peacefmonline.com indicates that the Achimota branch of Melcom shopping centre has collapsed trapping many inside.

A most unfortunate incident happened this morning. The building which houses our Achimota Branch has collapsed.

Melcom Shopping Mall Disaster - Two Unlucky Ones

Survivor Of The Melcom Disaster

The presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, has expressed his deepest condolences to the families of victims who lost their lives when the Achimota Melcom Branch complex collapsed.

President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961, to a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas. Growing up, he was also raised by his grandfather, who served in PattonÂ’s army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to become vice president at a local bank.