THE National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has taken practical steps to strengthen strategic bilateral relationships with Ghanaian and Ugandan film authorities. In one of such moves, the President of Ghana Cinematographic Exhibition Board of Control (GCEBC) recently received a comprehensive list of films the board approved for viewing. The document contained approvals spanning the first half of this year from January to June 2014.

Carlos Tevez is understood to be flying out to Argentina to help deal with the matter. Photograph: Andrea Di Marco/EPA. The lawyer for Carlos Tevez says the father of the Argentina and Juventus star was kidnapped on Tuesday, but was released eight hours ...

A building within the Gaza port on fire Shells hit fuel tanks at Gaza's only power plant, causing a massive explosion and black smoke to billow into the air. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images. Hopes of a new ceasefire in the three-week-old Gaza war ...

An Iraqi Christian family in the village of Qaraqush after fleeing Mosul. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images. Jihadi extremists who have taken over the Iraqi city of Mosul have denied ordering families to have their daughters undergo female genital ...

John Kerry emphasised the need to 'avoid further escalation and to restore the 2012 ceasefire as soon as possible'. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters. Israeli troops and tanks are engaged in fierce fighting in Gaza following the launch of a military ground ...

Malaysia Airlines ticket office. Shares in the carrier have fallen by 35% this year. Photograph: Darren Whiteside/Reuters. Malaysia Airlines was still reeling from the impact of flight MH370's March disappearance when news of MH17's crash in Ukraine broke ...

Jimmy Anderson of England celebrates the wicket of India's Stuart Binny during the second Test at Lord's. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images. Jimmy Anderson will face a preliminary hearing next Tuesday on his level-three disciplinary charge, ...

Man of Steel Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has made an offer for the owner of Warner Bros, maker of Superman movie Man of Steel. Photograph: Warner Bros/Sportsphoto/Allstar. Rupert Murdoch's move for Time Warner underlines the importance of ...

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Football player Demba Ba in Turkey Demba Ba is mobbed by Besiktas fans as he arrives at Ataturk airport in Istanbul to complete his transfer from Chelsea. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Turkish side Besiktas are in talks with Chelsea over the ...

Football player Demba Ba in Turkey Demba Ba is mobbed by Besiktas fans as he arrives at Ataturk airport in Istanbul to complete his transfer from Chelsea. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Turkish side Besiktas are in talks with Chelsea over the ...

Investigators near the site where a man was killed allegedly by Ukrainian shelling on Russian territory. Photograph: Arkady Budnitsky/EPA. Ukrainian troops say they have made gains around one of the main remaining separatist strongholds, as Moscow ...

John Kerry said on Sunday there were still substantial gaps with Iran on how to reduce its nuclear fuel-making capacity. Photograph: Hans Punz/EPA. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, will press his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, to make "critical ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby attends a eucharist service at York Minster. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images. This year's General Synod meeting in York is marked by a sense of power moving away from the top of the church – just as ...

Malala Yousafzai holds a picture of kidnapped schoolgirl Sarah Samuel with Sarah's mother, Rebecca Samuel, in Abuja. Photograph: Olamikan Gbemikan/AP. Malala Yousafzai,the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban for championing the right ...

An Israeli air strike on a police station on the road towards Khan Younis. Photograph: Heidi Levine/SIPA/Rex. Israel is keeping up air strikes on Gaza but has failed to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets across the border, as the United States offered to help ...

chris froome puch A battered Chris Froome is helped back into the race by one of Sky's backroom staff after crashing on Stage Four. Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA. Chris Froome fell again in the Tour de France just 25 kilometres into Wednesday's fifth stage.

Airline passengers entering and leaving the UK on potentially any routes, including transatlantic ones and those connecting with mainland Europe, will be expected to be show that electronic devices in their hand luggage can be powered up, British ...

shinzo abe tony abbott Shinzo Abe and Tony Abbott sign the Japan-Australia economic agreement and the agreement on the transfer of defence equipment and technology. Photograph: Mark Graham/AFP/Getty. Tony Abbott has strongly affirmed Australia's ...

Andy Murray returns the ball to Grigor Dimitrov on Centre Court at Wimbledon but the 2013 champion lost 6-1, 7-6, 6-2. Photograph: UPI /Landov / Barcroft Media. Contrary to reports, the world was still spinning on its axis 24 hours after Andy Murray lost a ...