An Iranian woman risks the death penalty for killing her father who she said raped her and made her pregnant, a newspaper report said Sunday.
Samira, 22, poisoned her father Nasrollah in December 2005 by putting cyanide in his juice for “raping her since the age of 19,” the Etemad-Melli newspaper said.
The woman has been charged [...]

Dr Kwame Nkrumah was independent Ghana’s first leader
1957: Ghana celebrates independence
The people of Ghana have been celebrating the end of colonial rule and the dawn of their independence.
Most workers have been given the day off - tens of thousands have gathered in the capital, Accra, to greet the independent country’s first prime minister, Dr Kwame [...]