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[caption id="attachment_126378" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Wendie Renard[/caption] Hosts France opened the 2019 Women’s World Cup with a brilliant victory over South Korea in front of an overjoyed, sold-out crowd in Paris. Corinne Diacre’s side, among the favourites to win the eighth edition of this competition, produced a breathless performance to take a deserved 3-0 lead at half-time thanks to forward Eugenie Le Sommer’s early opener and two headers from towering defender Wendie Renard. Midfielder Amandine Henry curled in an excellent fourth goal late on, much to the delight of the 45,261 fans inside the Parc des Princes. England and Scotland will…

File photo[/caption] An eighteen year old unemployed man, Musa Danumah, also known as Soldier Boy, has been jailed for five years for stealing church musical instruments by the Ashaiman circuit court. Mr. Gabriel Mate- Teye, presiding judge, told the court that the accused person was already serving a 12 year jail term for similar offences. The judge added that Musa Danumah was involved in a series of robbery attacks within the jurisdiction of the court and would serve all the jail time concurrently. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Yahara Salifu of the Ashaiman divisional police command, told the court that, the accused…

Photo: EPA/ANDY RAIN[/caption] Tory leadership candidate Michael Gove has said he “deeply regrets” taking cocaine more than 20 years ago. He told the Daily Mail that he had taken the drug at several “social events” while working as a journalist. The environment secretary said he believed the “mistake” should not be held against him in his bid to become prime minister. Members of the party are due to vote for a new party leader after Theresa May stepped down from the role. Mr Gove, who served as justice secretary from 2015-16, is one of 11 Tory MPs who have said…

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has served notice it will fight against government’s decision to restrict access to free-to-air television channels in the country. The Ministry of Communications and its agency, the National Communications Authority, NCA, are pushing for a policy that seeks to regulate broadcasters when Ghana fully migrates from analogue to digital television transmission. The decision has received backlash from a section of the media, including the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association, which argued government has no business slapping charges on TV audience for access to free to air television channels. GJA President Affail Monney said it is not…

Real Madrid have agreed a deal to sign forward Eden Hazard from Chelsea for a fee that could exceed £150m. Hazard has agreed a five-year contract and will be presented as a Real player on 13 June, subject to a medical. The Belgian scored 110 goals in 352 games for Chelsea after joining from Lille in 2012, and scored twice as they won the Europa League final last week. “Leaving Chelsea is the biggest and toughest decision in my career to date,” said Hazard. Writing on Facebook, he added: “I hope you understand I had to pursue my next chapter,…

A seven-year-old special needs girl from Cape Coast, Ayeyi Yiadom-Boakye, had her wish of meeting the First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo come true. Ayeyi had in a TV3 report highlighting her condition, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, told Portia Gabor she wishes to meet the mother of the land who she appealed to for help. Osteogenesis imperfect is caused by defective genes. It is a group of inherited disorders characterised by fragile bones that break easily. Touched by the story of Ayeyi, the first lady on Friday invited the little girl over to her office at Jubilee House…

A student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has drowned at a beach in the Takoradi-Sekondi municipality of the Western Region. The deceased, James Emil Cudjoe Jnr, a real estate student, was said to have gone to the Ekuase beach to swim with his colleagues Wednesday afternoon when he was carried away by the sea. Cudjoe’s body has since not yet been found. His brother, Benjamin Emil who confirmed the incident to the host of Connect FM’s Omanbapa morning show Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, said efforts are being made to recover the body. According to him, the…

Government says it intends to airlift supporters from Ghana to Egypt to rally behind the Black Stars in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). According to the Ministry of Youth and Sports, government is in talks with some organisations to raise the needed resources to fly out Ghanaian supporters to cheer on the Black Stars to win the tournament. “As we are trying to win the tournament this year, we had to factor the Supporters Union. God-willing government has the intention to get supporters to rally behind the Stars,” Public Relations officer of the Ministry Elvis Adjei-Baah told Onua…

Africa’s best travel brands and the Indian Ocean have been disclosed at a star-studded gala ceremony in Mauritius. The influential people of the travel industry congregated for the World Travel Awards Africa & Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony at Sugar Beach – A Sun Resort to see who’d be among them to be crowned best of the best. Winners at the red-carpet reception were Kenya, home to some of the greatest tourist attractions of the world, which was voted as the Leading Destination of Africa. In the meantime, the verdant forests, wild waterfalls, unique wildlife and paradise beaches of Mauritius helped…

Africa’s best travel brands and the Indian Ocean have been disclosed at a star-studded gala ceremony in Mauritius. The influential people of the travel industry congregated for the World Travel Awards Africa & Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony at Sugar Beach – A Sun Resort to see who’d be among them to be crowned best of the best. Winners at the red-carpet reception were Kenya, home to some of the greatest tourist attractions of the world, which was voted as the Leading Destination of Africa. In the meantime, the verdant forests, wild waterfalls, unique wildlife and paradise beaches of Mauritius helped…