Trafalgar Square, London, has been taken over by a ghost forest. Artist Angela Palmer intends to inspire and provoke debate about the future of the world's rainforests with her installation of rainforest tree stumps from Western Africa.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.

The British government has promised immediate action will be taken after several different types of toxic waste material were discovered in nearly 90 containers that were shipped to Brazil earlier this year.

Ghana's Minister of Information, Mrs. Zita Saba Okaikoi, says that journalists are needed to be the architects of poverty eradication and ignorance. Her speech ended a two-week workshop in Ghana funded by the United Nations Development Programme.

Joseph Agbeko of Ghana retained his IBO bantamweight crown with his unanimous decision over Australian based Armenian boxer Vic Darchinyan in Florida.

U.S. President Barack Obama made a visit to Ghana where only two other President have visited since 1957. The 44th President spoke in front of Ghana's Parliament Saturday to give congratulations, warnings and charity.

Following the end of the G8 summit that he was attending in the Central Italian city of L'Aquila, US President Obama paid a visit to the Vatican for a brief private audience with Pope Benedict XVI.

When it comes to transparency and leading by example, Obama does not pick sides. Having ridden the technology wave and won partly due to it, Obama, for his upcoming Africa tour wants to hear from the man on the street .

MOSCOW, Russia – A glimmer of hope with regards in strengthening US-Russia relations provided an encore in what was a glamorous celebration of US Independence day.