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Almost 15,000 people have signed a petition calling for the royal family to pay for the £369 million repairs to Buckingham Palace.

Yesterday it was announced that the royal residence is to undergo a major 10-year refurbishment.

The hefty bill will come from a 66% increase in the Sovereign Grant – the funding for the monarchy’s official duties – for the 10-year period, with the total works estimated to cost £369 million.

But thousands of people are livid at the thought of their tax money paying for Her Maj’s luxury pad.

The US secretary of state John Kerry says that the overwhelming majority of US citizens support the US taking action on climate change.

Speaking at a meeting in Marrakech, Mr Kerry said he believed that US commitments would not be reversed.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement once in office.

Mr Kerry said that market forces, rather than policy, would ensure a transition to a low carbon world.

LONDON (AP) — Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is Britain's top diplomat, tasked with winning international friends as the country prepares its exit from the European Union.

So far, that's turning into mission impossible, as EU leaders accuse him of offering insubstantial and unrealistic visions of the U.K.'s future outside the 28-nation bloc.

The latest critic is Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who told the BBC on Tuesday that Johnson "is offering to the British people options that are really not available."

Being in or out of the EU customs union was “not a binary decision”, Theresa May said during a sometimes noisy prime minister’s questions dominated by the strategy for Brexit – or what her critics say is the lack of one.

May repeatedly insisted she and her ministers were devising a coherent plan for exiting the EU but would not share details before negotiations began.

During a 90-minute private meeting, President Obama said the two discussed foreign and domestic policy and how to ensure a smooth handover of power

Donald Trump was accorded a chilly but deferential welcome at the White House on Thursday as the president-elect met with Barack Obama for a 90-minute private meeting in the Oval Office.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) emphasises that transmission and distribution lines are as important as electricity generation and should be viewed equally.

The Japanese agency's country representative for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Koji Makino, stated this while on a three-day tour in the Northern Region of Ghana, where there are currently two JICA projects underway.

The election the world thought would never end at least began predictably – an hour and 50 minutes after the last one was over.

This was how long it took one presidential hopeful, Kentucky senator Rand Paul, to first start campaigning against Hillary Clinton when polling closed two years ago in the midterm elections. It was to prove almost the only thing that went to script. What happened next would change the certainties of American politics forever.

Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have called off their one-week strike after a meeting with stakeholders on Monday, November 7.

According to the nurses, they will resume work on Tuesday, November 8, having been satisfied with assurances as well as supply of logistics to the country’s foremost psychiatric hospital.

The nurses began an indefinite strike on Monday, October 31 after complaining of “shortage of essential medications” required for psychiatric management, among other reasons.

Upon reading the affidavits and statement of cases by the applicant and interested party respectively;

Upon hearing Thaddeus Sory with him Sean Opoku, Sanya Anita Morrison and Reindof Twumasi Ankrah counsel for the applicant and Ayikoi Otoo with him Gary Nimako Marfo, Felix Ograh, Ofosu Appiah, Naa Djama Ayikoi Otoo and Barbara Brown Counsel for the interested party;

It is hereby ordered that: –

The applicant extends the nomination period from today Monday, 7th November to the close of working day of Tuesday 8th November .

The Supreme Court has ordered Ghana’s Electoral Commission to extend nomination period to Tuesday, November 8 to allow all the disqualified presidential nominees to correct all errors on their nomination forms.

It has also ordered a stay of the hearing of all cases challenging the disqualification of the affected presidential nominees.

The Commission on October 10 disqualified 13 presidential nominees after it detected different errors on their nomination forms.