ACCRA, July 11 (Reuters) - Ghana's annual inflation rose to 9.4 percent in June from 9.3 percent the month before, the statistics office said on Wednesday, highlighting growing price pressures in the West African economy.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Libya's Gaddafi-era prime minister and oil chief Shokri Ghanem died after suffering heart failure and falling into the Danube river and there is no sign of foul play, the Vienna prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

After the World War II, the world was confronted with seeking justice of crime against humanity, including annihilation of the Jews, came to be known as the Holocaust. The International Military Tribunal was set up right after the fall of Nazi regime. This led to the prosecution of Julius Streicher, the publisher of anti-Semitic German weekly Der S ...

Memo to Team Romney speechwriters: Onward to prosperity through free markets and dont hesitate to spell it out. Last week, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney came in for a well-earned pounding from three bellwethers of the Supply Side right. The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, and Forbes.com Opinions acidly critiqued Team ...

I will start this weekends admonition by a tale told by an unknown author. It is originally called the pebble and the ripples. A man was sitting by a lake. He was throwing small pebbles into it from time to time. A young boy happened to cross by. He was intrigued to see that after every few minutes or so, the man would toss a pebble into the ...

One big question lingering in my mind that I want the Ghana Police Service to answer is whether the security service is a speaking service or a service mandated to serve and protect the constitution of the country, governments and its officials, traditional authorities, ordinary men and women, children and properties? This is beca ...

The exchange rate for the cedi, quoted in the Wall Street Journal as 1.95 cedis to a dollar, stands on a precipice and faces the psychological level of two cedis to a dollar. If this rate is broached, the cedi will sink faster and probably take President Mills government down with it. The Bank of Ghana announced policies to resuscitate the ...

I dont know what the Bui Dam Woyome is up to these days, but it is rather disgusting to hear Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah accuse the presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party NPP of violent and intemperate rhetoric when, in reality, it is the members, supporters and sympathizers of the mis-ruling National Democratic Congr ...

Nobody should waste his/her time to dare Mr. Martin Amidu, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice under President Mills government, who has lately turned himself into a buzzing fly wansema pobi, making a lot of perky noise with the view to drawing some attention to himself. President Mills and the NDC should not waste time responding to ...