US President Barack Obama has said he will put plans for a US military strike against Syria on hold if the country agrees to place its chemical weapons stockpile under international control.

The government has made available the cedi equivalent of $200 million for the payment of ongoing capital projects in various sectors of the economy to ensure their completion.

Three telecom companies in the country have recorded a drop in their mobile subscriber numbers for the month of July, this year.

A Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, has contended that annulling votes because a presiding officer has not signed a pink sheet should not have a place in modern democracy.

Three vehicles belonging to a private company, the 21st Century Construction Limited, have been burnt by persons suspected to be sympathisers of people whose buildings were demolished on a parcel of land at the Millennium City, near Kasoa in the Central Region.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it is not convinced that the call from the Electoral Commission (EC) to political parties for recommendations to reform Ghana’s electoral process is genuine.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry has embarked on a series of activities in the Western Region to transform the region into a hub of economic activities to create jobs, improve livelihoods and alleviate poverty.

In the spirit of industry and academic collaboration, Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) and the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) have entered into a mutually beneficial agreement to encourage multi-disciplinary research programmes and training of students at the university’s Faculty of Engineering.

President John Dramani Mahama has called on African countries to build their capacity in the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts to ensure lasting peace on the continent.

The youth of the Convention People's Party (CPP) has called on the Minister of Trade and Industries, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, to make full disclosure of the US$35 million Indian government loan to build a new sugar processing plant at Komenda in the Central Region to revive the sugar industry in the area.

A woman and her son are fighting for their lives at a Kisumu hospital after they were attacked by a man they called husband and father, respectively.

The Ghana Refugee Board says it cannot guarantee food supply for refugees in the country by December this year.

Four persons, including a policeman and a dismissed soldier, who robbed a businessman of his money at gunpoint at Achimota in Accra have been sentenced to a total of 120 years imprisonment by the Accra Circuit Court.

Four passengers died and others sustained various degrees of injury when a Yutong bus plunged into the Pomponi River, near Hwerewase Mpamprom in the Adansi North District, on Sunday evening while it was raining.

The Ghana Association of French Teachers (GAFT) is to fashion out new and effective strategies and methods to transform the learning of the language.

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said its demonstration against corruption will come off as planned today, in spite of a National Security ban on public demonstrations.

The Executive Chairman of the Zoomlion Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyapong, has urged the youth to capitalise on their creativeness in order to create wealth.

A Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Baba Jamal, has urged metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to ensure the successful implementation of the government’s street-naming project.

The Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State,Togbe Afede XIV, has envisaged that relations between Ghana and Togo  would grow beyond the artificial colonial partitioning and protocols to demonstrate stronger and practical socio-economic linkages for the benefit of the two countries.

Kenya has been spared a potential crisis after the world court decided that President Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto will not be tried at the same time.