Political intolerance is growing by the day and this has caused prominent Ghanaians to call the main players in the country’s politics to order. Apart from minor clashes among rival political groupings, recent riots at Atiwa and Akwatia, both in...

Many people are feared dead in two separate boat accidents in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the boats was carrying up to 300 people when it caught fire on the Kasai River near the Angolan border.

A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted, according toThe New York Times. Andy Coulson, currently media advisor...

An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, or sodomy, on the basis of “judge’s...

An emergency official in Somalia’s capital says at least five people have died during a battle between Islamist militants and government forces backed by African Union peacekeepers. Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu’s ambulance service, said...

The Global Fund has suspended more than $300 million in health assistance to Zambia because of concerns about corruption — the latest graft scandal to hit President Rupiah Banda before an election due next year. The freeze, which is likely to...

A former Serb general convicted of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War had his neck slashed open by three Muslim prisoners in a British jail yesterday. Radislav Krstic, 62, serving a 35-year sentence for war crimes, was in a...

A man who killed his newborn daughter the first time he was left alone with her has been jailed for five years. Tiffany Sellman Burdge was 25 days old when she died after suffering heart failure and bleeding to the brain while alone with her father,...

Steve Jobs and Apple are at it again with an amazing, world changing piece of technology. The iPad is a lovely, functional toy that brings back all kinds of holiday memories - both of wanting something shiny and awesome so badly you can burst, and then...

As the situation stands today, the answer to this question has got to be no. Increasingly, manufacturers are basing the functions of notebooks or tablets on connectivity with WiFi or mobile broadband networks and the lack of this connectivity would...