The GFA Appeals Committee has dismissed Great Olympics FC’s appeal of the Disciplinary Committee’s ruling in their case against Elmina Sharks FC. Click here for the decision: Appeal Decision – Accra Gt_ Olympics FC vs Elmina Sharks FC (1) Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in Ghana. GhanaStar.com is your source … Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio and Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto have vowed to try to save the vaquita marina porpoise, which could be extinct as soon as next year. The pair had clashed briefly last month when DiCaprio promoted the cause online, leading to defensive tweets from Pena Nieto. But two were all smiles on Wednesday as … Read more
Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed a committment Monday to increase efforts to save the vaquita marina porpoise, burying the hatchet in a Twitter feud over the endangered species. In May, DiCaprio asked his millions of Twitter and Instagram followers to sign a petition calling on Pena Nieto to do … Read more
One in five children born with a twin sibling in sub-Saharan Africa dies before the age of five — three times the rate among singletons, said a study Thursday. Almost two-thirds die in the first month of life — often succumbing to the after-effects of a difficult birth or entering the world too early or … Read more
Italy is a country famed for its world-class clay pottery. But now curators of the Museo Della Merda, Italy’s ‘S**t Museum’, have come up with a new kind of crockery. They’ve invented ‘Merdacotta’ – a new kind of baked clay made from Terracotta and cow manure. The Museo Della , translated as the Museum of … Read more
Orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos are the nearest relatives of humans in the primate world, and like us, they can tell when a person is wrong in their beliefs, researchers said Wednesday. Great apes were also willing to help a person who was mistaken about the location of an object, according to the study in the … Read more
The world’s most lethal scorpion, the deathstalker, has been caught on high-speed camera for the first time lashing out with its stinger, according to scientists. A comparison of half-a-dozen scorpion species shown in ultra-slow motion revealed an unsuspected variety of strike modes, they reported in the journal Functional Ecology. The deathstalker had the fastest lunge … Read more
A leading marketer of “responsible tourism” has decided to stop selling tours that include visits to zoos. Responsible Travel, based in Brighton, specialises in wildlife holidays and says keeping animals in zoos is inhumane. About half a dozen tours that involve zoos are being dropped from the firm’s roster of 3,500 possible trips. The firm’s … Read more
Two babies were safely delivered on Ghana’s 60th independence day at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in the Central Region. Although four deliveries were expected on the day, only two women were delivered as at 4:30pm on Monday, March 6, 2017. A midwife on duty, Selasie Hanyabui said “We have two deliveries today…and thankfully, Rebecca … Read more
A zoo in the Tunisian capital where visitors stoned a crocodile to death is to close temporarily, the local affairs and environment ministry said Friday. It will close its gates from Monday for “emergency cleaning and maintenance works and to set up measures to manage visitors entering and exiting”, the ministry said. The public was … Read more
Elephants hardly ever sleep in the wild, getting around two hours of shut-eye per night and only in the wee hours of the morning, researchers said Wednesday. The findings in the journal PLOS ONE are based on two female wild African elephants — living in Botswana’s Chobe National Park — who appear to sleep the … Read more
With all the stressful situations we face in our day to day lives, it’s good to have knowledge of relaxation responses to these stressors. This will help you avoid negative effects of stress like insomnia, high blood pressure, headaches, fatigue etc. Jumia Travel shares 7 relaxation techniques to help you achieve this. You can sample … Read more
It can be very uncomfortable – even agitating – to get dressed, looking all smart and appealing, only for something as little as sweat under your arms to ruin it all. There is something unarguably embarrassing about having the underarm of your dress, blouse or shirt drenched in sweat, and it gets worse if it’s … Read more
play videoPart of the birth was shown in a video clip posted by the hospital A 64-year-old woman has successfully given birth to healthy twins – a boy and a girl – in Burgos, northern Spain. The Recoletas Hospital delivered the twins by Caesarean section, the usual method in such rare cases. The unnamed woman … Read more
Rescuers found no newly stranded whales Monday on a notorious stretch of New Zealand’s coastline where hundreds of marine mammals died after beaching themselves last week, conservation officials said. In good news for volunteers who worked to save nearly 700 pilot whales that swam ashore, the Department of Conservation said a pod of about 240 … Read more
Radio and TV personality Jeremy Van-Gashong says she mistakenly took her symptoms for thyroid cancer to be that of her developing an Adam’s apple when she first noticed a bump in her throat. The God-fearing voice-over artiste took to Instagram a couple of months ago to reveal that she travelled to Germany for treatment after … Read more
Most people have calluses on the heels and balls of their feet. The thick layers of dead skin are there to protect your feet from the pressure of walking. But you may not like the sight of rough, yellowish heels peeking out of your sandals. Soak your feet in hot water and scrub with a … Read more
Comfort Gyamfuah Snr and Comfort Gyamfuah Jnr went missing recently: their story making a worrying headline, especially against the backdrop of earlier fate suffered by other girls. Many wondered whether they too had been used for rituals; fortunately they appeared, albeit with a harrowing story though not as disturbing as when nobody, including their parents, … Read more
The first set of quadruplets from IVF has been successfully delivered by a team of medical experts at the Lapaz community hospital in Accra. The bouncy set, comprising three boys and a girl, were delivered through a caesarean section by a team of doctors, nurses and other professionals led by Dr Fela Adoboe. The hospital … Read more
A fifty-eight-year-old post-menopausal woman on Wednesday delivered a set of twins (two girls) at the Trustcare Specialist Hospital and Fertility Centre in Kumasi after undergoing an Intro-Vitro Fertility and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) at the centre. The IVF-ET is a specialised process in medicine that is used to help couples who for various reasons cannot get … Read more