President John Mahama has reconstituted the boards of the National Service Scheme, the National Board for Small Scale Industries, and made new appointments to Boards of the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Venture Capital Fund.

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded outside the Swedish consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday morning, damaging the consulate but injuring no one, the office's chief told CNN.

The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has responded animatedly to those calling on him to use his Committee for Joint Action (CJA) to lead demonstrations against recent utility tariff increases in the country.

The French Ambassador to Ghana, Frederic Clavier has expressed his country's readiness to establish more businesses in the country under the French Chamber of Commerce.

The OPCW, the body overseeing destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Africa World Airlines (AWA), one of the reputable and fastest growing airlines in Ghana will from November this year extend its routes into the West African sub-region.

As part of the multi-million dollar Anti Counterfeit (ACF) drive  of Hewlett Packard (HP), global leader in technology innovations,  20,000 counterfeit products of the company were seized  in Ghana in November 2012.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Thursday was sentenced to 28 years in prison after he was convicted in March of two dozen federal charges.

A fire broke out in a hospital in southern Japan early on Friday, killing 10 people, police said.

Four hundred and forty out of the 690 junior nurses at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) whose names were submitted for the payment of their 21 months’ salary arrears are either ‘ghosts’ or non-nursing staff of the hospital.

China has knocked the US from its top spot as the world's biggest net importer of oil, US government data shows.

The Local Government Workers’ Union (LGWU) of TUC-Ghana has asked its members not to join CLOSAG’s intended strike over their stance on the implementation of Market Premium under the Single Spine Salary Structure.

The government will invest about $20 billion in the development of new oil discoveries over the next five years, the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, has indicated.

Ghana’s yam sector has received a boost following the launch of a comprehensive strategy to enhance productivity, quality and marketing domestically and outside the country.

The state will today celebrate the life of the late renowned Ghanaian poet, Professor Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor, at a special ceremony at the National Theatre in Accra.

The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, will leave Accra today for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend an extraordinary meeting of the African Union.

The government has stated that 1,326,000 of the 2.4 million consumers of electricity will continue to benefit from subsidy despite the recent increase in electricity tariff. The subsidy regime is under the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) support scheme for the poor and vulnerable.

Motorists and commuters using the Assin Praso-Asante Bekwai road will experience a convenient, safe, and uninterrupted transport services when the project is handed over to the government in December, this year.

The Pamela Bridgewater Project, in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, has organised two separate outreach programmes in Kumasi and Accra to educate head porters (kayayei) on the dangers of child trafficking.

The Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), Ghana, is to embark on a year-long programme in three traditional areas in the South-Dayi District in the Volta Region to review customary practices that infringe on the rights of the people.