ACCRA: Ghana's new government plans to review its $918 million programme with the International Monetary Fund because it may need more money for its spending plans, a minister-designate said on Friday. The three-year programme, signed by the ...

ACCRA: Ghana's new government plans to review its $918 million programme with the International Monetary Fund because it may need more money for its spending plans, a minister-designate said on Friday. The three-year programme, signed by the ...

ISLAMABAD: According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) 24 million children between the age of five and 16 years are still out of school. The educationists are of the view that though some integral measures had been ...

Men who are bald at age 45 are more likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer compared with those who keep their hair, Daily Mail reports. US researchers found those who lose hair at the front of their heads and have moderate hair-thinning on the crown ...

Some newspaper reports indicate that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made an appeal to the local population in the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan to support its struggle for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. It has also been ...

NEWPORT – US President Barack Obama landed in Britain on Wednesday on the eve of a two-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit of Western leaders, an AFP photographer saw. Obama was one of 67 leaders taking part the talks, which ...

KIEV/DONETSK: Heavy shelling hit residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces fought street battles in other towns on Wednesday as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion. The forces of the ...

ABIDJAN- The African Development Bank on Tuesday pledged $60 million to help fight the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola which is raging across west Africa. The aid will help authorities in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria to strengthen their ...

ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan (IK) played the last wild card of his agitation campaign against the present dispensation by deciding to resign from National and provincial assemblies, sans KP Assembly, on the heels of his non-starter and illogical civil ...

Today is the centenary of the British declaration of war with Germany – which sparked four years and three months of conflict in the First World War. Comments; Email; Print. To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. help us keep our site ...

NANJING: A factory explosion on Saturday morning has once again revealed the biggest cost of the country's decades-long economic rise — the loss of human lives. The disaster befell a wheel hub polishing workshop operated by the Taiwanese-invested ...

NANJING: A factory explosion on Saturday morning has once again revealed the biggest cost of the country's decades-long economic rise — the loss of human lives. The disaster befell a wheel hub polishing workshop operated by the Taiwanese-invested ...

GRABOVE, Ukraine - International experts pushed on Saturday with their painstaking probe at the crash site of downed flight MH17 in east Ukraine after US President Barack Obama called on Russia to heed international pressure to defuse the civil war ...

In this July 2014 photo provided by The Citizens Foundation 17-year-old Haris Suleman is greeted by students from the Citizens Foundation school in Lahore, Pakistan, during his around-the-world flight. The body of the Plainfield, Indiana, teen was recovered ...

MOSCOW: Russian investigators said Wednesday they had detained two metro workers over a devastating crash in the Moscow subway that killed at least 21 people, as anger mounted over the tragedy. City authorities declared Wednesday a day of mourning ...

HOYLAKE: Tiger Woods returns to the scene of one of his greatest triumphs at Hoylake this week, as he attempts, in the 143rd British Open, to resurrect a career blighted by injury. It was at the Royal Liverpool links course in 2006 that Woods won the 12th of ...

GAZA CITY - The Palestinian Hamas movement said on Monday it would not end hostilities with Israel without concessions by the Jewish state and that no serious efforts towards a truce had been made. "Talk of a ceasefire requires real and serious efforts, ...

JERUSALEM – Israel kept up its punishing raids on Gaza on Monday but held off from a threatened ground incursion as the world intensified efforts to hold a truce. With Israel's campaign to halt cross-border rocket fire entering its seventh day, the Arab League ...

MOSCOW: A female Ukrainian airforce navigator known as “G.I. Jane” in her home country has been arrested in Russia and charged over the deaths of two Russian journalists, in a move condemned by Kiev. Russian investigators said Nadiya Savchenko, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Under-fire Germany face rejuvenated France in Friday's World Cup quarterfinal at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Maracana stadium in a mouth-watering clash of two European powerhouses. This represents an acid test for Germany coach Joachim ...