GH's Nania Owusu-Ankomah appointed Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration, marking a huge milestone for Africa in global dispute resolution.
GH's Nania Owusu-Ankomah appointed Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration, marking a huge milestone for Africa in global dispute resolution.
Russian tourist Alexandra Rumyantseva is tanning on a beach in Moscow-annexed Crimea, not far away from the front lines of Ukraine's eastern and southern territories. But even getting to Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014 and a popular beach destination, is difficult.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the northern Philippines Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, shattering windows of buildings at the epicentre and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometres (185 miles) away in the capital Manila. In 1990, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the northern Philippines created a ground rupture stretching over a hundred kilometres.
The Commonwealth Games are sometimes seen as a quirky relic in the modern sporting calender but former International Olympic Committee (IOC) marketing chief Michael Payne says they have consistently defied the doomsayers. Payne, credited with transforming the IOC brand and finances through sponsorship, said the Commonwealth Games had shown remarkable resilience over the decades.
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