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Pope Francis has clarified his recent comments about homosexuality and sin, saying he was merely referring to official Catholic moral teaching that teaches that any sexual act outside of marriage is a sin. And in a note Friday, Francis recalled that even black-and-white teaching is subject to circumstances that might …

Some students on the Government of Ghana scholarship under the “Ghana Scholarship Secretariat” are said to be stranded in the United Kingdom (UK) over the delay in releasing their fees and stipends. Some of the students are said to have been dismissed while others are being chased by their schools …

A woman who backed out of marrying a man who had paid her school fees has been ordered to refund shillings 9.4 million (about $80,000) spent on her. The Chief Magistrate’s Court of Kanungu ordered Fortunate Kyarikunda, who dumped the lover that had sponsored her studies to refund shs9.4 million …

With a wave of job cuts within the tech industry sweeping across the globe, Google’s parent company, Alphabet Incorporated is the latest to announce its intentions to carry out a similar exercise. The tech giant has said it will cut about 12,000 jobs, more than six per cent of its …

Dozens of people have been killed after a plane with 72 people on board crashed near an airport in central Nepal. CNN reports that at least 32 killed in Nepal as plane crashes near city of Pokhara. Bijay Neupane/Reuters The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of …

A French court has ordered a small town to remove a statue of the Virgin Mary, saying the religious display violates the separation of church and state. The statue is located at a crossroads in La Flotte, a municipality of 2,800 inhabitants on the popular holiday island Ile-de-Re, off France’s …

Prince Harry claims he had enough material for “two books”, and did not include some things in his memoir because his father and brother would never forgive him. He told the Daily Telegraph there were some things “I just don’t want the world to know”. He also said he wanted an apology …

US President Joe Biden’s aides have found a fresh batch of classified government records at a second location, in a growing political embarrassment for the White House. The first cache was found at a private office in Washington DC that Mr Biden used after his vice-presidency. The matter is under …

Crude oil prices surged on Monday January 9, after China, one of the world’s largest economies opened its borders. With China being one of the largest importers of crude oil, the re-opening of their borders led to an increase in demand which pushed the prices of the crude oil from …

An American piano tuner, Bill Magnusson, has gifted an 11-year-old Ghanaian boy with a grand piano at a cost of $15,000. Jude Kofie, according to a report by CBS, lives in Aurora, Colorado in the United States of America with his Ghanaian parents. His father, Isaiah, told CBS that he …