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A 12-year-old girl from California has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after a tense final in Washington. Ananya Vinay from Fresno correctly spelled the word marocain – a type of dress fabric – to defeat Rohan Rajeev, 14, from Oklahoma.

The Chinese woman arrested for illegally mining in Ghana, Aisha Huang, has been granted bail eventually after two previous failed attempts. The court on Friday granted her and four others partial freedom with the sum of GH¢ 500,000 each and two

Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change on Thursday afternoon – deriding it as bad for American jobs and bad for the environment. He dared opprobrium from foreign leaders, environmentalists, scientists and celebrities to

One of the suspects seen  in the Captain Mahama murder footage has been arrested at Awutu Dominase near Kasoa in the Central region. The suspect, Charlse Buah,  was reportedly hiding in his girlfriend’s room when he was picked up. The lady

An Accra District Court has remanded the two alleged killers of the Abuakwa North MP  JB Danquah-Adu into police custody after they were discharged   by an Accra High Court on May 30, 2017. The prosecutor, DSP George Amega, told the

Since Tuesday, the nation has been mourning the death of Captain Maxwell Mahama of the Ghana Armed Forces who was callously lynched by a group of persons at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central region. I first read the story of the young

Some Ghanaians have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC. The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in

The District Chief Executive for Denkyira-Boase in the Central region Daniel Appianim has been relieved of his post. It is unclear the reason for his dismissal, but Starr News sources say it is linked to his comments following the killing of