Tennis player Maxime Hamou’s accreditation has been revoked by the organisers of the French Open after he tried to kiss a female reporter repeatedly during a live TV interview. The French player, 21, kissed journalist Maly Thomas while holding her around her neck and shoulders, despite her efforts to duck away. In a statement, the French Tennis Federation (FTT) condemned ...

A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the jawbone, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath in the UK, suggests Africa had its own distinct dinosaur fauna, until the asteroid strike ...

Manchester United and Real Madrid have been rated as dead even on KPMG’s annual study of the most valuable soccer clubs in the world. Both hit the table at approximately $3.25 billion, about $100 million more than Barcelona. The report rates Manchester as the most valuable club city in the world, with United and City placing ahead of three London ...

Abuja (AFP) – The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria’s minister for women said on Tuesday. Speaking at a ceremony welcoming 82 newly rescued girls to a government rehabilitation facility in Abuja, Aisha Alhassan said all the girls will be heading back to class in September, without specifying ...

The Attorney General, Gloria Akufo has confirmed that her office indeed ordered the entering of a nolle prosequi in the ongoing trial of the suspected killers of former Abuakwa North Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu. The two men linked to the murder of the late MP were Tuesday morning discharged by an Accra High Court. The two were ...

The founder and Presiding Bishop of the Lighthouse Chapel International, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills has endorsed the Catholic Church. According to the Minister of God, the Catholic Church is “the most enduring Church in the world” because it has been anointed by God to survive the test of time. Delivering a sermon in a viral video on social media, Bishop Dag ...

News of the murder of a Ghanaian soldier, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama has shocked the entire country on Tuesday morning. Adam Mahama was the victim of mob justice by a group of residents in a town in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. He was lynched to death and his body burned by residents who claim he ...

Former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has called for calm and restraint as the security agencies investigate the unfortunate lynching of a serving military officer at Denkyira-Obuasi. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the former President expressed his sincere condolences to the wife, family and the unit of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama for their unfortunate loss. “Your loss ...

Thirteen South Sudanese soldiers have gone on trial accused of raping foreign aid workers and murdering their local colleague. The incident in the capital, Juba, last July resulted in a UN report which accused UN peacekeepers of failing in their duty to protect civilians. It happened as rival forces in the civil war clashed in the city. The soldiers’ lawyer ...

The Minister for Defence, Mr Dominic Nitiwul has said the lynched Captain Maxwell Mahama shot and wounded one attacker in an attempt to defend himself, when he came under attack at Denkyira Obuasi and Monday. “What I can confirm to you is that he wounded somebody by shooting him in an attempt to defend himself,” the Defence Minister said in ...