Eight students of the Koforidua Polytechnic in the Eastern Region have been arrested by the Police for allegedly attacking students of the New Juaben Senior High School in Koforidua.

A US diplomat hotly tipped to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has admitted releasing incorrect information after September's attack on the American consulate in Libya.

Ten civilians have died after gunmen stormed a pub in central Nigeria's Plateau state and opened fire on customers, authorities say.

Tens of thousands of people have held protests in Cairo against Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, who last week granted himself sweeping new powers.

Who cares what the government is doing today in an election season? We in the CPP are more interested in what has been done to better the lives of the people and not what is being planned or being done. We have heard that before, already in 2008. The essence of an election is to give approval to what has been done that improves the quality of life.

One illegal miner has been killed in a dynamite explosion at Asare Bediako Senior high School at Akrokerri in the Ashanti region.

At least 20 people have been killed and many injured by two bomb explosions in a south-eastern district of Syria's capital, Damascus, activists say.

Midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong will be available for Ghana at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations after his nationality switch was ratified by world football governing body Fifa.

A group loyal to the governing NDC, Platform for Electoral Dialogue (PED), has stated that the NDCÂ’s John Dramani Mahama is the only candidate who has shown beyond all reasonable doubts that he truly appreciates the challenges confronting Ghana.

Youth leaders of the two main political parties, the NDC and the NPP, have pledged to expose any of their supporters involved in acts that undermine the peace pact signed by presidential candidates yesterday in Kumasi.

As the political clock inches closer to December 7, pushing all the political parties traversing the country to have a last minute jaw-jaw with electorates, all indications and polls by independent research firms are pointing to the fact that the upcoming election will not travel beyond the first round.

Fourth persons have died after eating soup made with poisonous mushrooms at a retirement home in northern California, local officials say.

The United Nations reports, seven out of 10 women are victims of physical or sexual abuse at some point in life.

The sole commissioner charged with investigating judgment debts paid to various individuals has encountered a major investigative hurdle as key witnesses failed to turn up on the first day of the public hearings.

Judges in Egypt's appeal courts will halt work in protest at President Mohammed Mursi's controversial decree giving himself new powers.

Sierra Leone's main opposition has said it will boycott parliament and local councils unless its concerns about the recent elections are addressed.

On Friday November 30 whatever your political ideology, colour or totem, all hearts will groove to one beat at the iconic Mirror Ball, the premium entertainment platform for mature and trendy residents of Accra and beyond.

It is common knowledge that the family is the foundation of every society, and is the bedrock on which every nation stands. Show me a weak, immoral, unprincipled, unprogressive, and carefree society, community, or nation, and I will point to you the dysfunctional families, weak marriages, depraved sexual morals, greed, selfishness, and unhappy homes that dictate the lifestyle of the people, and form all the fragile components of that aggregation of humans.

With not much difference between the top seven clubs on the Glo Premier League standings, the pressure to win more points continue on Wednesday.

Chelsea say they "regret" the way they handled their accusation that referee Mark Clattenburg used racial language at midfielder John Mikel Obi.