The Electricity Company of Ghana is under investigations for unexplained power cuts being experienced by consumers in spite of a timetable for the ongoing load shedding exercise.

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS AG trader standing trial for fraud and false accounting, acknowledged he lost control of his trading activities in the period that led up to the multibillion-dollar loss at the Swiss bank last year.

PBC Limited on Tuesday presented a cheque for GH¢ 50,000 towards the upcoming National farmer’s day celebration in Accra.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria say that they have uncovered the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe.

Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has scoffed at the proposed one-time premium under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by government describing it as the “biggest political hoax”.

Libya's General National Congress is to meet today to vote on a new cabinet after its sitting on Tuesday was stormed by protesters.

Campaigning is on pause and the candidates are restraining themselves from overt politicking. But the calculation for each man is very different, writes Mark Mardell.

A gang of robbers kills 20 people, including a local chief, in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, a local official says.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Rural Development, Mr Cornelius Ojelabi, Tuesday said seven corpses had been recovered from the scene of SundayÂ’s canoe mishap at Imude in Oto-Awori Local Council Development Area of the state.

The income of white South African households is six times higher than that of black households, 18 years after the end of apartheid, census figures show.

At least 40 people have been killed, millions are without power and transport across the north-eastern US has been severely disrupted as storm Sandy heads north for Canada.

Rescuers plucked stranded New Jersey residents from flooded neighborhoods, workers pumped water from swamped Manhattan tunnels and stunned homeowners dug through the wreckage of their houses Tuesday after Superstorm Sandy ripped into the Northeast.