 | Myjoyonline.com - The flag bearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party has stated that 2012 is a year for Ghanaians to make a choice between competence and dereliction. |
 | Modern Ghana - Mr Kobina Ade Coker, Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the party is poised to claim the region as its “Political World Bank”, in Election 2012. |
 | IBNLive.com - Chicago: India has stood up to the US saying it will not cut its oil imports from Iran despite America and European Union's sanctions against Tehran. |
 | The Sun - CHRISTINA Aguilera seems to feel the heat as she sings at the funeral of Etta James. Fake tan ran down the 31-year-old Dirrty singer's leg as she sang her idol's best-known hit, At Last. |
 | Xinhua - BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhuanet) --The 18th African Union Summit opens on Sunday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Leaders and delegates from 50 members of the union will focus on boosting African trade, amid growing global economic uncertainty. |
 | Citifmonline - The New Patriotic Party says it has resolved its impasse with the management of the Metro Mass Transit Service. The party on Saturday accused the Managing Director of MMT, Mr Maxwell Awuku of orchestrating a diabolical plan to frustrate the party's ... |
 | Channel News Asia - DAKAR: Senegal's opposition readied Monday for mass resistance to President Abdoulaye Wade's controversial third term bid, which a court validated in a late-night ruling despite violent dissent. |
 | Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is planning to retire after his country's next elections, it was claimed yesterday. |
 | Nigerian Tribune - President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed for patience and support of the people of Edo State and the South-South for the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment (SURE) programme of his administration. |
 | Times LIVE - Her death, which was announced by Mandela's grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, comes hours after Madiba left Mthatha yesterday for his Johannesburg home while his house at Qunu village is being renovated. |
 | Houston Chronicle - A protester holds a bloodied pamphlet after clashes erupted outside the Egyptian state TV building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. |
 | Bloomberg - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend a United Nations Security Council meeting Jan. 31 to show support for an Arab League plan to end the violence in Syria, an Obama administration official said. |
 | Reuters India - | BEIJING (Reuters) - China's embassy in Sudan has lost contact with 29 Chinese construction workers held by rebels in the strife-troubled border state of South Kordofan, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. |
 | Ninemsn - By ninemsn staff A waitress who guided passengers to safety and gave away her life vest before perishing on the Costa Concordia has been hailed as a hero. |
 | DAWN.com - KABUL, Jan 29: Afghanistan and Pakistan plan to open a second front in negotiations with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia as US-brokered talks get under way in Qatar, officials said on Sunday. |
 | Myjoyonline.com - The group that secured a court ruling ordering the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to remove illegal ex-refinery differentials from the petroleum pricing formula says it will go to court again to get the NPA to comply with the ruling. |
 | Ghana Business News - Barclays Bank has been adjudged the world's worst company at the Public Eye 'shame award' for speculating on food prices as a result of which about 44 million people worldwide were pushed into extreme poverty in the second half of 2010. |
 | Myjoyonline.com - Research conducted by Kenyan-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster indicate 11.5 million tweets originated from Africa in the last three months of 2011. |
 | Myjoyonline.com - The African Union has conferred on two African Scientists the Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Awards for their tremendous contribution to science on the continent. |
 | Times LIVE - The revolution is being tweeted. But it's not the revolution you're thinking about. Though Twitter played a prominent role in last year's Arab Spring uprisings - but not quite as prominent as it was made out to be by a keenly observing outside world ... |
 | Ninemsn - More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. |
 | Examiner.com - Khloe Kardashian has been a frequent presence this year supporting Lamar Odom at Dallas Mavericks games, and on Friday night she had some company as the home team defeated the Utah Jazz -- LeAnn rimes. |
 | Mirror.co.uk - Defiant Denise Welch put on a united front with husband Tim Healy yesterday - insisting they won't split over claims she cheated. |
 | Mirror.co.uk - by Clemmie Moodie, Daily Mirror 30/01/2012 She's had nothing but Flack over her fling with One Direction's Harry Styles. But fear not, Cazza's made of sterner stuff. |
 | The Independent - Due to lack of power supplying his laptop, Mark asked the UK team to give an account of what's been ... As the Volvo round the world race fleet stretches as it passes through the Malacca Strait, the winne... Kicking off a new weekly blog for anglers of ... |
 | ABC Online (blog) - When it was done, once the last winner was hit in an Australian Open that had been taken into a third week, closing a final the length of which had never previously been seen, realisation set in. |
 | The Independent - Due to lack of power supplying his laptop, Mark asked the UK team to give an account of what's been ... As the Volvo round the world race fleet stretches as it passes through the Malacca Strait, the winne... Kicking off a new weekly blog for anglers of ... |
 | The Age - AP Arsenal's attempt to end a seven-year trophy drought remains on track after they scored three times in eight second-half minutes to beat Aston Villa 3-2 and reach the fifth round of the FA Cup. |
 | Myjoyonline.com - Ghana made it a double in wins over Mali after the Black Queens completed a 5-0 rout on Sunday in Accra in the qualifying for the African Women's Championship. |
 | Myjoyonline.com - The authorities of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have closed down the Children's Emergency ward indefinitely due to an outbreak of a bacterial infection known as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). |
 | Written by  in 920 Google+ circles ZDNet (blog) - By Zack Whittaker | January 29, 2012, 4:04pm PST Summary: Ever heard of a National Security Letter? They can gag companies from telling a person that their data has been taken for US inspection. |