Paris will bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024, 100 years after the French capital last staged the event. The city has applied unsuccessfully on three previous occasions – losing out to London in 2012 after failed attempts for the 2008 and 1992 Games. “We believe that this bid and our goal to host the 2024 Games will excite, ...

James Horner, the Hollywood composer who wrote the Oscar-winning score for Titanic, has died in a California plane crash aged 61. A trained pilot, he is reported to have been alone aboard a small private plane which crashed north of Santa Barbara on Monday morning. The musician worked on three James Cameron films, as well as A Beautiful Mind, Braveheart, ...

Pakistan’s prime minister has called for emergency measures as the death toll from a heatwave in southern Sindh province reached nearly 700. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said it had received orders from Nawaz Sharif to take immediate action. The army is also being deployed to help set up heat stroke centres, with temperatures reaching 45C (113F). Officials have ...

The Patriotic Front in Kitwe district has appealed to all the opposition Members of Parliament to support the constitution amendment bill when once table in Parliament. PF Kitwe District Information and Publicity Secretary Christopher Kang’ombe says this is considering the fact that non-contentious issues need to be included immediately in the republican constitution without any further delay. Mr. Kang’ombe says ...

Quick intervention by Police and the District Commissioner in Mbala last week saved a 15 year old Grade 8 girl of Kaseshya village in Chief Zombe’s area from being married off. Both Police and Acting District Commissioner, Felix Mungaila have confirmed the development to ZANIS. Mr. Mungaila said police acted on a tip off from a concerned member of the ...

Patriotic Front Media and Publicity Committee Vice Chairperson Sunday Chanda says UPND President Hakainde Hichilema is not being sincere in his evaluation of President Edgar Lungu’s six months in office. Mr. Chanda says while Mr. Hichilema claims things are becoming worse under the PF regime and that the six months of President Lungu has been a disaster, he must remember ...

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) in Eastern Province has expressed concern over the intention by government to issue a new Eurobond worth $2 billion. CSPR Eastern Province Coordinator Maxson Nkhoma has told QFM News in a statement that Government’s huge appetite for borrowing is a source of worry and will not only undermine efforts to reduce poverty levels ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba says no known Zambian national fell victim to recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Mr. Kalaba told parliament this afternoon that the Zambian High Commission in Pretoria was instructed to advise all Zambians living in South Africa to avoid violence prone areas to avoid being victims of xenophobic attacks. Mr. Kalaba says during the xenophobic ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has given the Ministry of Youth and Sport Permanent Secretary Agness Musunga a 72 hours notice to take appropriate action on well documented evidence of public funds wastages taking place at the National Youth Development Council (NYDC). TIZ Executive Director Goodwell Lungu has told QFM News in a statement that the ultimatum is contained in a ...

Finscope Zambia 2015 survey has revealed that the proportion of Zambian adults accessing financial services has increased from 37.3 percent in 2009 to 59.3 percent in 2015 bringing the total number of adults accessing financial services to 4.8 million. The study indicates that this represents a significant reduction of the number of adults who are financially excluded. In 2009, 4 ...