A female union official has been shot dead at South Africa's Marikana mine, where 34 striking miners were killed by police a year ago, her colleagues say.

Cabinet has started looking into a draft bill that will govern oil exploration and production (EVisit Myjoyonline.com for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana Nelson Mandela's health is gradually improving, South African President Jacob Zuma says, in the first government update on his health in two weeks.

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, the third-largest producer of gold, posted a loss in the second quarter and suspended its dividend after bullion suffered a record three-month drop. Its shares slid to a 12-year low.

Economist Dr. Joe Abbey is asking government to publish a detailed report on the Eurobond.

An animal lover who befriended a stray puppy while volunteering in Cambodia raised £3,000 to have it flown back to England.

A Houston man shot himself to death in his wife's hospital room after she had given birth to their baby, police said.

“This is your captain speaking”, is a commonly heard refrain by air travellers, but beyond the flight time, weather and comments about the seatbelt sign, pilots are not known for being too chatty. But what would the controller in the cockpit say if given the chance?

As the verdict of the 2012 Election Petition pending at the Supreme Court draws near, members of the Christian community have taken to serious prayers, seeking the face of God for peace in the aftermath of the Supreme Court case.

Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Alex Segbefia is advising New Patriotic Party General Secretary, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie to go the Supreme Court with a lawyer, if he intends to put up a defense against the contempt charge against him.

Beleaguered General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie is urging party supporters to "remain calm and not to do anything untoward to disturb the peace of the Nation".

A member of National Council of the NPP Eugene Antwi believes having intercessory prayers for a jail prospect, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie is unnecessary.

A Deputy Communication Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku, believes high levels of corruption and misappropriation of taxes under the current administration is gradually killing the country.

Former NPP Member of Parliament for Ahafo Ano South, Stephen Balado-Manu has described as needless calls on the President to sack the Deputy Communications Minister, Victoria Hammah for her recent public gaffe.

Deputy Minister for Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says Ghana has not made any significant gain in the ongoing Presidential Election Petition before the Supreme Court.

A lawyer has revealed there are intensive behind-the-scenes diplomacy for jail prospect and NPP general secretary Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie as he faces nine supreme court justices in 24hours to answer charges of contempt.

The General Secretaries of political parties with representation in Parliament, are in a rare case of unison, angry with the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) for daring to conduct a survey, a result of which suggests that political parties are corrupt.

The womenÂ’s wing of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have gathered at the party headquarters to pray for the party's General Secretary and one of their communicators, who have been summoned by the Supreme Court judges.

Mr. President, when a government places taxes on some of the most unimaginable items in a wholesale manner like your government has done, that is desperate; when a particular tax is schemed to protect one player in a particular gargantuan industry, that is myopic; but when the taxes obviously threaten to increase crime (smuggling), destroy companies and jobs, and place a double-dose burden on consumers, that is dubious.

Concerns are rife that the President’s retention of undesirable CEOs or nomination of others described as “unqualified” is needlessly creating tension and threatening local governance. The President has stuck to his guns. What does he hope to get from this fracas?

He is a Deputy Propaganda Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and so Mr. Solomon Nkansah has to be pardoned for his whole cloths of lies against the most formidable political opponent of his paymaster, President John Dramani Mahama.