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By Nadine Yousif BBC News At least three people have died and over half a million homes are without power after a series of powerful winter storms swept through parts of the eastern US and Canada. Strong winds flipped cars and knocked over homes in Florida, where several tornadoes were reported.  More than 1,300 flights in or out of the ...

By Marita Moloney & Patrick Jackson BBC News Masked gunmen have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened terrified staff. Employees were forced on to the floor during the broadcast by the public television channel TC in the city of Guayaquil before the live feed cut out. Police say they later freed all the staff and made ...

By: Christian Sowada, (Ex Sports) Introducing Christian Chibueze (Eze1) the new boxing master of ceremony (MC) or Ring Announcer from Ho, Volta Region.Becoming a boxing announcer requires a blend of passion for the sport, strong communication skills, and knowledge of boxing rules. Christian Chibueze (left) performing his duty in the ring The ring announcer sets the mood for the crowd ...

By Jonathan Amos The company behind America’s latest mission to soft-land on the Moon is battling to save the project. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic says its Peregrine spacecraft has a faulty propulsion system that’s lost “critical” amounts of fuel. The issue has already made it difficult for the craft to point its solar panels at the Sun to generate electricity and may ...

By Charlie Northcott and Helen Spooner BBC News, Africa Eye Evidence of widespread abuse and torture by the founder of one of the world’s biggest Christian evangelical churches has been uncovered by the BBC. Dozens of ex-Synagogue Church of all Nations members – five British – allege atrocities, including rape and forced abortions, by Nigeria’s late TB Joshua. The allegations ...

By Chloe Kim  BBC News, New York A student shot six people, one of them fatally, at a high school in the US state of Iowa before taking his own life on the first day back from holiday break, police said.  A “pretty rudimentary” improvised explosive device was found by investigators at Perry High School, police said, and rendered safe.  ...

By Graeme Baker BBC News First came the shock, as the Airbus A350 carrying 379 people collided with a second plane while landing in Tokyo. Then came heat and smoke as the jet sped along the runway in flames.  Then survival instinct kicked in, as people scrambled to flee a cabin filling with fumes, knowing that lives depended on the ...

By Kelly Ng BBC News The leader of South Korea’s political opposition was stabbed at a news conference in the southern port city of Busan, Yonhap news agency reports. Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost the presidential elections in 2022, was stabbed on the left side of his neck on Tuesday morning. The male attacker was arrested at the scene. Mr ...

By:Julius Addae ODURO Three local based players have been included in the Black Stars final 27-man squad announced on Monday, January 1, 2024. Chris Hughton has included Ghana Premier League trio Richmond Lamptey (Asante Kotoko SC), Jonathan Sowah (Medeama SC) and Abdul Fatawu Hamid (Medeama SC) in his final 27-man squad ahead of AFCON 2023 in Ivory Coast. The three ...

By: Julius Addae ODURO The Volta Regional Football Association has released the fixtures for the 2023/2024 division two league season on Saturday, December 30, 2023. The leagues which is divided into ten (10) zones is scheduled to kick off on Saturday, January 6,2024. Below are the zonal fixtures :