Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, or the “Snow Leopard” as he has been dubbed, is making his final preparations for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
A skier preparing to take part in the Games at this point in the calendar is not the most sensational news, until it is understood the 31-year-old grew up in Accra, Ghana (where [...]
President Barack Obama stumped Sunday for the Democratic candidate in Massachusetts’ knife-edge Senate election, saying that his legislative agenda depended on her winning.
The seat, which was occupied by Edward Kennedy for almost five decades before his death in August, was considered a Democratic stronghold. But candidate Martha Coakley finds herself struggling ahead of Tuesday’s vote [...]
Bodies littered Haiti’s capital on Wednesday after an earthquake that may have killed thousands of people as it collapsed shanty towns, luxury hotels and even the presidential palace.
With victims pinned under debris and powerful aftershocks rattling the country, looting broke out soon after the 7.0 magnitude quake which spared no part of the capital [...]
US black leaders said Monday they had unreservedly forgiven Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for racially insensitive comments, adding it was time to focus on pressing policy issues.
Reid created a firestorm with remarks published in the just-released book “Game Change,” saying that Americans had warmed to the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama because he was [...]
Agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation are in Ghana to find out about the sojourn in the country of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner, a Ghanaian minister said Monday.
“The investigation will allow the FBI agents to gather more information on the suspect’s stay in Ghana,” Deputy [...]
China’s Ambassador in London today went to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after being summoned to explain her country’s execution of Akmal Shaikh, a British citizen.
Mr Shaikh, a convicted drug smuggler who is believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder, was killed by lethal injection early today, despite the personal intervention of Gordon Brown in [...]
