The Volta Regional House of Chiefs has condemned the installation of a new paramount chief for the Aflao Traditional Area, saying Torgbui Amenya Fiti V remains the unchallenged paramount chief of the area.

Abdul Aziz Mohammed, a watchman, has been put before an Accra Circuit Court, for supplying narcotic drugs without lawful authority.

Cuba is to scrap its two-currency system in the latest financial reform rolled out by President Raul Castro, official media report.

Syria's moderate opposition should "commit itself fully" to planned peace talks, the UK and US have said.

The Tema Circuit Court 'A' on Monday granted bail in the sum of GHC 15,000.00 with one surety to Edward Edah, a surveyor, for allegedly defrauding a storekeeper of GHC12, 000.

The National Security Advisor, Brigadier-General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (rtd), has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of being behind the prevailing strikes and labour unrests in the country, it has been reported.

The National Security Adviser, Brigadier-General Nunoo-Mensah (rtd), says he will not apologise for comments he made to the effect that public workers who are not ready to sacrifice and work should take their passports and “get out of the country”.

A man is being held for the murder of an 18 year old woman at Kawangware area of Nairobi after he surrendered to authorities at the Muthangari police station.

A former vintner and a salon technician were each fined $250 for allegedly engaging in oral sex in front of other passengers on a commercial Allegiant Air flight from Medford, Oregon, to Las Vegas.

The Australian Capital Territory has become the first part of Australia to legalise same-sex marriage.

The country’s labour front has, for the past years, been bedevilled with numerous unrests by workers who want higher salaries and better conditions of service.

Organised labour has called on all its members nationwide to put on red armbands and fly red flags at their various workplaces from today.

The Judgement Debt Commission says it is close to unravelling the mystery surrounding the sale of a Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) drill ship for the settlement of judgement debt.

The Progressive People's Party has suggested to President John Dramani Mahama to stop visiting churches for thanksgiving service for his victory in the presidential election petition.

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party and Member of Parliament for Okere, Mr Dan Kweku Botwe, has asked the rank and file of his party to take the election of polling station executives much more seriously than ever before.

The government is to train more pre-school teachers to ensure quality teaching at the basic level, especially in the rural areas.

The government has called on striking workers to tone down on their rhetorics and stop personality attacks as the government tries to address their concerns.

The time was a little after 9 in the evening and it was a working day so one would have expected a late night activity in the capital city.  Instead, a heavy calm usually associated with the central business district had descended on and enveloped the city.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Akrofuom Constituency in the Adansi South District of Ashanti, Mr Kwabena Appiah-Pinkrah, has said it is imperative to increase the earnings of cocoa farmers to cushion them from the unbearable general price increases in the country.

The allegations that Jehovah's Witnesses simply 'relied' on God when it came to matters concerning blood, as one of my friends, suggested seemed a bit far-fetched, more so in the 21st century.