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A massive cyber-attack using tools believed to have been stolen from the US National Security Agency (NSA) has struck organisations around the world. Cyber-security firm Avast said it had seen 75,000 cases of the ransomware – known as WannaCry and variants of that name – around the world. There are reports of infections in 99 countries, including Russia and China. Among the worst hit was the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Scotland. The BBC understands about 40 NHS organisations and some medical practices were hit, with operations and appointments cancelled. How did the cyber-attack unfold? The malware spread…

Ace sports presenter Christopher Opoku has passed away, www.3news.com has learnt. Christopher Opoku died on Wednesday, May 10 after a long battle with cancer of the rectum for which he underwent a medical operation on September 24, 2012. He has been steadily recuperating, having been active on social media over his passion of football. His last tweet was barely a fortnight ago: Today’s result probably blows our chances of making the top four. Like I said, our squad is the weakest in the top six. United can sneak in — christopher opoku (@CNOpoku) April 23, 2017 And his last post…

The Fifa Council has ratified the decision to give Africa nine automatic places when the World Cup expands to 48 teams in 2026. The move was confirmed on Tuesday in Bahrain – the continent currently has five spots at the tournament. A tenth African country will take part in a six-nation play-off tournament to decide the last two spots. The Bureau of the Fifa Council made the original proposal of how it planned to allocate the 48 places on 30 March. The expanded World Cup will feature 16 teams from Europe. Fifa members voted in January to expand the World…

About 50 senior high schools (SHSs) in the Northern Region still remain under lock due to unpaid feeding grants by government. The schools, which were supposed to reopen on Thursday May 4, were still not opened almost a week after the reopening date. Some headmasters, who spoke off-camera, revealed that government owed each school feeding grants of three-and-a-half terms. Though they expressed gratitude to government for paying for two terms, they maintained the schools will remain closed indefinitely until the said money hits their various accounts. READ: Gov’t releases over GH¢106 million for payment of school feeding grants A visit…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sent a congratulatory message to President-elect of France Emmanuel Macron on his victory last Sunday. Macron, 39, beat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of polls to be winner. “I join well-wishers all over the world in congratulating the newly elected President of the Republic of France, M. Emmanuel Macron, on his decisive victory in the presidential election run-off, held over the weekend,” President Akufo-Addo said in his statement on Wednesday, May 10. “I applaud the determination of M. Macron in his acceptance speech, to ‘fight the divisions that undermine France’,…

Englishman Steven Polack will be on the touchlines for Asante Kotoko in the second round of the 2016/2017 Ghana Premier League, 3news.com has gathered. Polack, who has coached Berekum Chelsea in the past, is expected to put pen to paper by the close of the week to take charge of the Porcupine Warriors. He will, however, not be on the bench on Sunday, May 14, when Kotoko take on Tema Youth in the last match of the first round. According to the official portal of the club, Polack will meet both backroom staff and the players before he begins work.…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has inaugurated a 10-member committee to among others “produce a clear, concise but detailed report to form the basis for the party’s campaign to win 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections”. The committee will also provide an objective review of the current state of the party. These were contained in a statement by John Boadu, the Acting General Secretary of the party, on Wednesday, May 10, following the inauguration of the committee. The committee will be led by Opoku Adusei, a member of the party’s legal team. The committee is expected to review, as well, the…

Australian Senator Larissa Waters has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation’s parliament. Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia Joy during a vote on Tuesday. The lower house last year joined the Senate in allowing breastfeeding, but no MPs in either house had done so. It followed a backlash in 2015 when Kelly O’Dwyer, a government minister, was asked to consider expressing milk to avoid missing parliamentary duties. “We need more women and parents in Parliament,” Ms Waters said on Facebook. “And we need more family-friendly and flexible workplaces, and affordable child care,…

“Hundreds” of cases of alleged wrongdoing – some involving senior officials – were being looked into by Fifa’s ethics committee before its main investigator and judge were ousted, the two have claimed. Football’s world governing announced on Tuesday it will not reappoint investigator Cornel Borbely and ethics adjudicator Hans-Joachim Eckert. At a news conference on Wednesday, they said their removal was a “setback for the fight against corruption” with knowledge of the cases being lost. The pair had earlier said it “meant the de facto end of Fifa’s reform efforts”. Borbely believes his removal was politically motivated. “We investigated several…

Tuesday’s fire explosion at a factory near Olam Oil Depot on the Sekondi-Takoradi highway left several workers injured. The fire is believed to have been ignited by the discharge of gas at GHUMCO, a utensils-production factory. Aftermath of the explosion: Source: 3news.com|Ghana Credit: Henry Yankey|Connect FM|Takoradi Follow @3Newsgh