2015-06-20 Ghana Health

TIME   

South Korea reports no new MERS deaths or cases   
Times of India
SEOUL: South Korea on Saturday reported no additional deaths and no new cases from its MERS outbreak, raising hopes the country is winning the battle to contain the deadly virus. The number of fatalities remained unchanged at 24 and that of confirmed ...

2015-06-20 Ghana Sports

GhanaWeb   

I never wanted to be a captain – Stephen Appiah   
GhanaWeb
For ex-captain of Black Stars, Stephen Appiah, leadership is a band around his wrist on the pitch to remind him of service not of power or pride so common to many so privileged. The Black Stars icon has revealed how all his life he wanted to play football not ...

2015-06-20 Ghana Entertainment

GhanaWeb   

Kill me and leave innocent people - Bukom Banku dares Ga gods   
GhanaWeb
Popular Ghanaian boxer, Braimah Kamoko, a.k.a Bukom Banku says the gods of the Ga Traditional Council should kill him and his entire family for “flouting” the ban on drumming and noise making instead of killing innocent Ghanaians as claimed by the Ga ...

2015-06-20 Ghana Sci/Tech

Wall Street Journal   

The Pope's Solution for Warming: Pray   
Wall Street Journal
With unintended sacrilege one news-service headline this week credited the pope with “finding religion on climate change.” Maybe it would be truer to say Pope Francis has tried to annex one of the newer religions, that of global warming, to Catholic liturgy, ...

2015-06-20 Ghana Business

Wall Street Journal   

Ghana Faces Huge Shortfall in Cocoa Crop   
Wall Street Journal
Dry weather and the late application of pesticides and fungicides to protect cocoa trees have caused Ghana's crop to shrink significantly, raising the possibility that growers won't be able to deliver enough cocoa to fulfill their contracts. But Ghana's cocoa farms ...

2015-06-20 Ghana World

Irish Independent   

Man found on roof of building may have fallen from BA plane   
Irish Independent
Flowers are laid by a man near where the body was discovered. Photo: PA Open Gallery 1 Flowers are laid by a man near where the body was discovered. Photo: PA. A suspected stowaway is thought to have plunged to his death after falling from a plane and ...

2015-06-20 Ghana Africa

Washington Post   

First Presidential Trip to Ethiopia Planned   
New York Times
President Obama will travel next month to Ethiopia to meet with African Union leaders and discuss ways to lift economic growth, strengthen democratic institutions and improve security, the White House announced on Friday. The visit, the first to Ethiopia by an ...

2015-06-20 Ghana Ghana

GhanaWeb   

BECE cancellation 'unprecedented' – Akufo-Addo   
GhanaWeb
New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described as an unprecedented tragedy the cancellation of certain examination papers by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). Akufo-Addo in a press release welcomed the ...