A former Saved by the Bell actor has been convicted of two charges after a bar fight on Christmas Day last year during which a man was stabbed. But Dustin Diamond – who played Screech – was cleared of recklessly endangering public safety by a jury in Wisconsin. Diamond had told the US court he was defending his fiancee and ...

essica Ennis-Hill can start making plans to defend her Olympic title after achieving the qualifying standard for Rio 2016 at the Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis. The Olympic champion, 29, finished fourth, with 320 points more than the 6,200 tally she needed for Rio. It was an impressive two days from the Briton, in her first heptathlon since winning gold at London ...

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the victim of a conspiracy from “behind the scenes”, his daughter has told the BBC amid the corruption crisis gripping world football. “Nobody is without fault but (…) he’s not the person who is taking money,” Corinne Blatter said. Her comments come as key Fifa officials face a string of bribery charges. Mr Blatter, who ...

Commerce, Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Miles Sampa says Zambia will not follow blindly when signing agreements with international partners. Giving Zambia’s position on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on the sideline of the just-ended Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP-EU) Council of Ministers in Brussels, Belgium, Mr Sampa said Zambia is still in the process of negotiating an EPA that ...

The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has asked the people of Zambia to dismiss as hogwash alleged propaganda by the Post Newspaper and Rainbow Party president Wynter Kabimba that the new Judicial Service Commission was sworn -in in secrecy by Chief Justice Irene Mambilima. The ruling PF says it does not find anything irregular about the new Judicial Service Commission which ...

Civil rights activist Brebner Changala has described as a sad episode the slowly drifting of Zambia into the culture of hate speech. Mr. Changala says the culture of hate speech which has become an every day phenomenon in country is not only un-progressive but also adds nothing to the nation’s oneness. He has Qfm News in an interview that he ...

Government has been cautioned to use the postponement of voter registration as a sign of what will happen if a constitution referendum runs alongside 2016 general elections. The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has postponed the dates for the commencement of the voter registration exercise, which was scheduled to start on the 17th of August, to the 14th of September ...

Uefa president Michel Platini must show strong leadership to unite Europe behind a collective boycott of the 2018 World Cup, says Greg Dyke. A boycott in protest at the re-election of Sepp Blatter as Fifa president will be considered by Uefa, European football’s governing body, when it meets this week in Berlin. Football Association chairman Dyke believes it would need ...

An Oscar and Bafta-winning costume designer who designed clothes for the Beatles and Sir Roger Moore’s James Bond has died in London, aged 94. Julie Harris died in hospital after a brief illness from a chest infection, a close friend confirmed. Harris designed clothes worn by the Beatles in the films A Hard Day’s Night and Help! and by Sir ...

Two UK banks have started internal reviews into whether they were used for corrupt payments by Fifa officials, the BBC understands. The FBI referred to Standard Chartered and Barclays – and HSBC – on Wednesday in the indictment of 14 people but did not accuse them of any wrongdoing. Seven of the 14 were Fifa officials, who were arrested in ...