London -Africa's positive growth story will lead to increased demand in a range of sectors, most notably the real estate market. The continent's growth has been spurred by commodity prices such as gas and oil, as well as a growing middle class. These developments will bring increased opportunities in the business, residential and retail property sectors as well as opportunities for African professionals.

You practically can't be in love nowadays without having some famous person wander in on your party. A pair of newlyweds tying the knot in Portofino, Italy, learned just that over the weekend when Beyonce and Jay-Z tried to pop into the church where their ...

Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher has made it home – 254 days since smashing his head on to rocks in a freak ski accident in the Swiss Alps. He returned to his family home at Gland on Tuesday, according to Germany’s biggest newspaper Bild, way ahead of a schedule set by doctors at a rehabilitation clinic […]

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Health is expected to hold a meeting with President Mahama to devise ways of effectively dealing with the Cholera disease. The disease has so far claimed over 80 lives with more than 10,000 cases recorded across the country. The outbreak has also created panic in the country as health workers battle to ...

A gadget for text messaging within a 50 mile radius without telecom service is reportedly recording a spike in interest around the world.

Kofi Asamoah Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Kofi Asamoah has called for end to the practice where journalists are assaulted while performing their task. According to him, media practitioners are supposed to be among the most respected professionals in the world because of the crucial role they play. Speaking Monday night on ‘Burning […]

Bernard Mornah The General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Bernard Mornah is set to go court to challenge the provisions of the Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 75 which makes biometric verification a prerequisite for voting. “I have personally instructed my counsel and lawyers to take up the matter and I am sure that after […]

Add comment. Bershidsky: Flight MH17 crash report answers one question. September 9, 2014 11:57 AM By Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg News. Travel deals. At first glance, the preliminary report on the July 17 crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over ...

The shortlist of contenders for the United Kingdom's prestigious Man Booker Prize, announced today, includes American authors Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler among the unprecedentedly multinational selection. The competition—which until this year ...

Dutch experts say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air after being hit by “objects” that “pierced the plane at high velocity” in July. The new report also said there was “no evidence of technical or human error”. Correspondents say this matches claims that MH17 was hit by missile shrapnel. Investigators relied on cockpit data, air ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama will address the nation at 9 p.m. on Wednesday about how the United States plans to confront the threat from the Sunni extremist group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In the speech, Mr. Obama will lay out a strategy for ...

Divine Nkrumah Following the dishonorable exit of the Black Stars team from the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil, several issues arose. Although a presidential commission of inquiry has been established to ascertain the cause of the teams’ abysmal performance, the Youth Organizer for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Mr. Divine Nkrumah, has observed that […]

Israel is unlawfully coercing almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into leaving the country at great personal risk, Human Rights Watch says. They have been denied access to fair and efficient asylum procedures and detained unlawfully, a new report says. Earlier this year, African asylum seekers in Israel staged mass protests over their treatment. Israel says ...

Former F1 champion Michael Schumacher has left a Swiss hospital to continue his recovery at home, his manager says. Sabine Kehm said in a statement that he had made “progress”, but there was “a long and difficult road ahead”. Schumacher suffered a head injury in a skiing accident in France in December last year and ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali authorities said on Tuesday they would investigate charges that women and girls in the capital Mogadishu had been raped by African peacekeepers, a principal source of security in the war-torn country.

The Islamic State's spectacular killings of American journalists, persecution of various non-Sunni religious groups and victories against Kurdish forces in Iraq have overshadowed its activities in the lands where it claimed its first victories — northeastern Syria.

The Volta Regional Police administration has charged over 30 drivers of commercial vehicles for various traffic offences. The move on Monday forms part of a quarterly Special Motor Check, embarked on  by top officials of the police service in the region. Some drivers had their license seized for various traffic offenses in an unannounced road check ...