China's supreme court has ruled in favour of US basketball legend Michael Jordan in a trademark dispute. The People's Supreme Court ruled a Chinese sportswear company must stop using the characters for Jordan's name, read as Qiaodan in Chinese...

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has declared its flag bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, the winner of the December 7 race to the Flag Staff House. According to the party, out of the 27,577 representing 94...

The Electoral Commission has hinted it will review all results of the presidential polls from the various collation centres. This, according to the election management body, has been necessitated by suspicion of mass over voting across the country...

Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hanna Tetteh has lost her bid to retain the Ewutu-Senya West parliamentary seat for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC)...

The Electoral commission has urged Ghanaians to remain calm as it begins to release results of Wednesday’s polls. The Commission tweeted: “We urge voters to remain calm as we begin releasing results. To ensure uncontested results, EC's verification process is stringent”...

Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and MP for Anyaa Sowotuom constituency, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has retained her parliamentary seat...

The flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has congratulated Nana Akufo-Addo for winning the 2016 elections “based on results available” to him. According to Nduom, “the wind of change has blown in his [Akufo-Addo’s] favour...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked a fossil fuel industry defender as his top environmental official, another retired general as homeland security chief and Iowa's governor as U.S. ambassador to China in choices at odds with some of his recent pronouncements...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said a victory for his army in Aleppo would be a "huge step" towards ending the country's five-year civil war. But he added that the defeat of rebel groups in the northern city would not end the conflict...

Hundreds of Arsenal fans have been left stranded in Switzerland following reports of a light aircraft crash at Basel Airport. The airport was closed after the Piper Pa-34 HB-Lsd from Nuremberg crashed after attempting to land in dense fog on Wednesday afternoon...

YouTube has said it has paid the music industry $1bn (£794m) in royalties this year - but record companies have responded by claiming it is not enough...

The 2016 parliamentary polls has recorded some shocking results as huge figures in parliament representing the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) have lost their seats. Notable among them is the NDC’s incumbent Member of Parliament for La-Nkwantang Madina, Amadu Sorogho...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly Mayor Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije has won the Ablekuma South parliamentary contest for the ruling NDC...

The John Mahama 2016 Campaign has called on its supporters to remain calm as counting continue nationwide. The team has since congratulated “its teeming supporters, sympathisers and the voting public for the impressive turnout to vote for President John Dramani Mahama today”...

Some suspected supporters of the New Patriotic Party have attacked the residence of pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Ben Ephson. According to the supporters, they suspect that some ballot boxes are being kept in the residence of the renowned pollster...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has commended the Electoral Commission’s preparedness in the conduct of this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections...

Presidential staffer, Sam George has won the Ningo-Prampram parliamentary seat for the National Democratic Congress (NDC)...

Former minority leader Ambros Dery has recaptured the Nandom parliamentary seat, provisional results have indicated. He has beaten the NDC’s Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane in the parliamentary contest. It is not yet clear the margin of victory. Mr...

The National Democratic Congress’ incumbent Member of Parliament for La-Nkwantang Madina, Amadu Sorogho has lost his seat. His competitor, the New Patriotic Party’s Boniface Saddick polled 57.97 percent of the total votes cast in that constituency as Sorogho polled 39.88 percent...

Majority leader Alban Bagbin has retained the Nadowli/Kaleo seat with some 6923 of valid votes cast, provisional results have suggested. He is being pursued by the PNC’s Bernard Mornah who has so far garnered 1,917 of the ballot...