Orlando Pirates defender Edwin Gyimah has reportedly began training with his Ghana teammates ahead of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals. The 25-year-old was involved a serious car accident on Monday when his vehicle collided with a taxi in his hometown of Obuasi, Ghana. According to Ghana’s leading football website, GHANAsoccernet.com, Gyimah has joined his Black Stars teammates at…
The newly crowned WBO international super bantamweight champion Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (16-0, 10 KO’s) on Thursday, landed in Ghana from U.K. and has promised fireworks in 2017. Isaac Dogboe who was in the company of his father/trainer Paul Dogboe received hero’s welcome as hundred of onlookers at the airport heaped praised on the 22 year-old rising star. Dogboe…
For a few days following the elections in Gambia and Ghana at the beginning of December, it seemed that the political landscape in West Africa would change in an unexpected way. On 1st December, Gambia’s strongman, Yahya Jammeh, who took power in a military coup in 1994, surprisingly conceded the country’s presidential election to former retail shop security guard…
Westbrook, the Thunder guard, is dominating opponents thisseason with double-digit averages in points, rebounds and assists. Russell Westbrook needed one more assist for another triple-double in his ruthless campaign across the N.B.A., so he drove the lane and tried to thread a pass to Joffrey Lauvergne, his teammate with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Instead, the ball bobbled loose for…
Francesco Totti, a native Roman, has spent his entire career with A.S. Roma:23 years and counting. He hopes to end his playing days in a Roma jersey. ROME — Armed with spray cans, the vandals last descended on Via della Madonna dei Monti, a dead-end alley not far from the Colosseum, about six months ago. They come to this…
“Who the Heck Is Alexis Ohanian, and Why Would Serena Williams Want to Date Him?” Slate magazine asked in a headline last year. Mr. Ohanian is a co-founder of Reddit, and, as of Thursday, Ms. Williams not only wants to date him, but plans to marry him. Ms. Williams, the tennis superstar, announced her engagement to Mr. Ohanian on…
The cheetah, as swift as it is in the hunt, will not be able to outrun the threats to its survival without new conservation efforts, according to an international team of researchers who reported their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They found that the threat to cheetahs, which now number about 7,000 worldwide, had…
WASHINGTON — A pair of luxurious waterfront compounds outside New York and Washington have for decades been a retreat for Russian diplomats, places to frolic in the water, play tennis and take lengthy steam baths. On Thursday, Obama administration officials described the compounds differently: as beachside spy nests sometimes used by Russian intelligence operatives to have long conversations on…
CARACAS, Venezuela — The soldiers barged into Rafael González’s home as his mother and girlfriend looked on. It would be a routine questioning, they assured him and others arrested that night, before hauling them off to a dark military barracks. What happened next was anything but normal, Mr. González recalled. He was stripped naked, kicked and struck with the…
For Rabbi Gerald Sussman of Temple Emanu-El on Staten Island, the Obama administration’s recent confrontation with Israel was a stunning turn for a president who had enjoyed support from many members of his congregation. “The word ‘betrayed’ would not be too strong a word,” he said. But in Los Angeles, Rabbi John L. Rosove of Temple Israel of Hollywood,…
