An unknown youngster has beaten off competition from former European Player of the Year Jean-Pierre Papin to be named the new manager of Azerbaijani club Baku FC – based on his experience of playing the computer game.

Espanyol winger Wakaso Mubarak has sensationally claimed that Spanish referees are biased against black players.

A massive limestone formation runs through the African islandÂ’s largely unexplored Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, which shelters some of the worldÂ’s most diverse wildlife.

The Confederation of African Football and Glo Mobile today announced the five shortlisted players for the 2012 African Player of the Year.

Some aggrieved members of the People's National Convention (PNC) have called on the leadership of the party to openly rebuke its presidential candidate, Mr Hassan Ayariga, to stop him from further damaging the party's enviable image.

The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has stated that politicians who resort to the politics of divisiveness, ethnicity and sectionalism are those that have lost touch with the problems of the Ghanaian and who have no plan to make Ghanaian earn a decent living whether they live in the North, South, West or East.

Police on Thursday blamed a radical Islamist sect for attacks that witnesses say left 18 people dead over the past two days in Nigeria's troubled north, part of a cycle of spiraling violence that is exacerbating religious tensions and that the government has been powerless to stop.

Supporters of the governing NDC in the Bono Ahafo region were left disappointed and gnashing their teeth when former President Jerry Rawlings, who was expected to campaign for the party there, took a middle line when he addressed the crowds.

AFAG is worried about what it described as the factual inaccuracies in government’s claim that it has distributed 100,000 laptops to students across the country under the “Better Ghana Agenda Laptop Programme.

Former Education and Sports Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo has described those opposed to the New Patriotic Party's (NPP)free Senior High School (SHS) educational policy as “nation wreckers”.

President John Mahama has assured that Ghanaian businesses that are thriving and have the potential to employ more people, will be given long term financial support in the next term of the NDC administration.

Host of Joy FMÂ’s Super Morning Show, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has reacted to claims that he was attacked by the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) after the IEA debate last Wednesday.

More beneficiaries trained in hairdressing and dressmaking under the Trades and Vocation module of the National Youth Employment programme (NYEP) now the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneur Development Agency (GYEEDA) have been graduated in separate ceremonies in three regions.

A pensioner grew cannabis with a street value of £12,000 to pay for a drugs rehabilitation course for his son, a court heard.

A teenage girl in the Indian capital Delhi has been shot dead by a man after she objected to him urinating near the gate of her family home, police said.

The Education Minister and heads of senior high schools are set for a collision course over feeding fees for boarding students in senior high schools.

An SMS-based software developed by four young Ghanaians to serve as a link between artisans and persons who need their services has been nominated as one of the five Demo Lions of Africa to represent the continent at the 2013 Demo in San Francisco.

Three young entrepreneurs have received Ghc10,000 each at the graduation ceremony of this year’s edition of Joy Business’s entrepreneurial mentorship programme, “My Business 2012”.

A former senior trader at UBS, sacked for failing to prevent colleague Kweku Adoboli from perpetrating the biggest fraud in British history, has set up a gambling website.

Visit Myjoyonline.com for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana Nicolas Sarkozy may be breathing a bit easier after authorities on Thursday decided not to pursue a formal investigation against the former French president, but rather to treat him as what officials described as a "witness-under-caution."