http://www.myjoyonline.com/pages/rss/site_world.xml Visit Myjoyonline.com for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana en-us Joy FM Online 2009 2013-05-20T02:08:51+01:00 Michael Ofori Amanfo Boateng Ghana News http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106311.php The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Okigwe South, Rt. Rev. David Onuoha, has expressed worry over what he termed “the serious threat corruption is posing to our corporate existence as a nation”. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106311.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106299.php The Nigerian military says that Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country are "in disarray" as a result of its offensive against them. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106299.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106285.php Syrian government forces have surrounded the rebel stronghold of Qusair and are storming it from several directions, says Syrian state TV. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106285.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106225.php A coin toss has decided the winner of the position of mayor in a central Philippines town after two candidates received the same number of votes. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106225.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106206.php A quarter of gay people surveyed in a major EU poll say they have been subjected to attacks or violent threats in the past five years. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106206.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106204.php The leaders of Turkey and the United States are huddling in Washington on Thursday over how to handle the Syrian civil war, the raging conflict that has left an estimated 80,000 people dead and a few million displaced. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106204.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106201.php A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year in order to promote nation-building. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106201.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106199.php Nigeria's army begins operations against militant Islamists after states of emergency were declared in three north-eastern states. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106199.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106194.php Nigeria's army has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew across the north-eastern state of Adamawa to curb attacks by militant Islamists. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106194.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106127.php The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and condemning the government's use of heavy weapons. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106127.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106109.php An American trying to dribble a football from Seattle to Brazil in time for the 2014 Brazil World Cup has died less than two weeks into his trip. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106109.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/106103.php US President Barack Obama has said the federal tax agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny was "intolerable and inexcusable". http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/106103.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106080.php Protesters in Kenya have released a pig and about a dozen piglets outside parliament to show their anger at newly elected MPs demanding higher salaries. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/106080.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106044.php A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel eating the heart of a dead soldier is condemned by the opposition and Human Rights Watch. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/106044.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106037.php Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three states after a spate of deadly attacks by Islamist militant groups. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201305/106037.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/105970.php Forty mentally ill patients escaped on Sunday from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after overpowering guards, police say. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201305/105970.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/105969.php A Philadelphia doctor is convicted of the first-degree murders of three babies born alive and killed with scissors in illegal, late term abortions. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/us/201305/105969.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105932.php The report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says that eating insects could help boost nutrition and reduce pollution. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105932.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105911.php Abdul Aziz believes he was standing right next to a shooter Sunday when gunmen opened fire at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, injuring 19 people. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105911.php http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105894.php An illegal immigrant in Italy has gone on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passer-by and wounding four others, police say. http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201305/105894.php