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By: Nutifafa Bequine The Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi has been closed down ahead of 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifying fixture between Ghana and Central Africa Republic (CAR) on Monday, 10th June, 2024. The decision according to Ghana Football Association is to give ample time to managers of the facility to improve the quality of the pitch before the ...

Max Matza,BBC News Three black men have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that the carrier briefly removed them from a flight after a complaint about body odour.  The men, who were not seated together and did not know each other, say that every black man was removed from the 5 January flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to ...

Max Matza,BBC News Three black men have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that the carrier briefly removed them from a flight after a complaint about body odour.  The men, who were not seated together and did not know each other, say that every black man was removed from the 5 January flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to ...

Pope Francis issued an extraordinary apology on Tuesday over his reported use of a gay slur in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops last week. “The pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, reported by others,” the Vatican said in a statement. During a ...

Sean Seddon,BBC News American actor Johnny Wactor has been shot dead in Los Angeles by a thief who was trying to steal a part from his car. The 37-year-old suffered fatal injuries after interrupting three men who were attempting to remove the catalytic converter from his parked vehicle. Wactor – who previously featured in the US soap opera General Hospital ...

By: Nutifafa Bequine The Ghana’s U-17 youth team, Black Starlets still have hope of qualifying to African Cup of Nations despite losing out on the WAFU zone B final and failing to gain automatic slot to the AFCON campaign. Coach Laryea Kingston sides lost their semi final match to Burkina Faso 2-1, crushing the hope of automatic qualification to the ...

Smitha Mundasad,Health reporter A cancer charity is warning people to do more to protect themselves from the sun as the number of melanoma skin-cancer cases in the UK continues to rise. Cancer Research UK predicts there will be a record 20,800 cases diagnosed this year – up from a yearly average of 19,300 between 2020 and 2022. Its analysis shows ...

By: Nutifafa Bequine The Black Starlets of Ghana were handed a 2-1 defeat in the semi final clash with Burkina Faso in the Ongoing WAFU zone B qualifiers at University of Ghana Sports Stadium on Saturday May 25,2024. Burkina Faso took the lead in the 13th minutes through Asharaf Tapsoba before Joseph Narbi levelled the score line in the 26th ...

By Joe Pike and Charlotte Rowles,BBC Newsnight A man discovered a medical specimen bag had been left inside his stomach after his hernia surgery, the BBC has found. The surgeon who carried out the procedure, at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in 2016, also left behind part of Tom Hadrys’s bowel that had been cut out during the ...

Ashley-John Baptiste & NJ Convery,BBC News Investigations & File on 4, @ashleyjbaptiste At the age of 14, Katy Baxter was detained alone under a court order, far from her Bournemouth home, supervised by two workers 24 hours a day, going for long periods without any contact with her family. “I wanted to see my nan and my sister. I couldn’t even ...