Champions League draw: Chelsea face Barcelona

Chelsea have been drawn against Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League, while Tottenham will face Italian champions Juventus. Premier League leaders Manchester City will play Switzerland’s Basel, Manchester United face La Liga side Sevilla and Liverpool take on Portugal’s Porto. Holders Real Madrid will face Paris St-Germain. A record five English teams progressed from the group…

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Man ‘poisoned family members after joining cult’

Italian police have arrested a man who allegedly used a rat poison ingredient to kill members of his family because they were “impure”. Mattia Del Zotto, 27, is accused of sprinkling the toxic chemical thallium in the food of his paternal grandparents and aunt, who died. Five other relatives are in hospital receiving treatment. Mr Del Zotto was detained…

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Cristiano Ronaldo beats Lionel Messi to win Ballon d’Or award

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d’Or award for the fifth time – and the second year in a row. Victory took the 32-year-old Portugal international level with 30-year-old Argentine Messi, who won the most recent of his five awards in 2015. Messi’s ex-Barcelona team-mate Neymar, now at Paris St-Germain, was third….

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Akumaa Mama Zimbi making men sexually active in a river

Radio and television personality, Akumaa Mama Zimbi, known in real life as Dr. Joyce Akumaa Dongotey-Padi has been caught red-handed bathing four men in an undisclosed river. The host of ‘Odo ahomaso’ show, was seen wrapped in white cloth ready to bath the four men in a river, when she was caught by a secret camera. In a picture…

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KUMACA: Parents, Police clash as 3 more students die and 46 hospitalized

Some parents have clashed with the Police and security personnel at the Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) in the Ashanti region after the parents stormed the school to forcefully take their children home. The agitated parents claim the school must release their wards after three more students were reported dead from meningitis Tuesday morning. This brings to six, the number of…

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US Supreme Court allows enforcement of Trump’s travel ban

The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Trump’s request to fully enforce his revised order banning travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries while legal challenges to it proceed in lower courts. It was a victory for the White House, which has seen the courts trim back various iterations of the travel ban, and…

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Parents storm KUMACA following third ‘strange death’ in one week

Scores of terrified parents and guardians have thronged the campus of Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) in a desperate move to check up on their children and possibly take them home following the ‘strange’ deaths that have hit the school. The deeply worried parents some of whom have come to the school from as far as Accra and…

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Court halts NCA’s sanctions against radio stations

The Electronic Communications Tribunal has directed the National Communications Authority (NCA), to halt the execution of sanctions it imposed on some 131 radio stations in the country for various offences. The Tribunal ordered that, pending the final determination of the case that had been brought before it by the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), the NCA must not apply…

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World Cup draw: England face Belgium, Panama and Tunisia in Group G

England have been drawn with Belgium, Panama and Tunisia in Group G at next year’s Fifa World Cup in Russia. Gareth Southgate’s men will begin their tournament against Tunisia on Monday, 18 June (19:00 BST) in Volgograd. They will then face World Cup debutants Panama in Nizhny Novgorod on 24 June (13:00 BST) before playing top seeds Belgium four…

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Asantehemaa’s funeral: Schools in Kumasi, Asokore Mampong to be closed

Basic schools within the Kumasi Metropolis and Asokore Mampong Municipal will be closed on Monday, December 4, 2017 to allow for activities for the final funeral rites of the late Queen Mother of Asanteman, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem to be held. On Friday, 8th December, 2017, schools will close at 12:noon to enable students reach home on time….

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