Hosts Chile moved into the Copa America semi-finals as Mauricio Isla’s late winner knocked nine-man holders Uruguay out of the tournament. Chile dominated a bruising contest, Eduardo Vargas and Arturo Vidal both going close before Edinson Cavani was sent off for a second yellow card. Uruguay held out until the 82nd minute when Isla fired home from 16 yards. In ...

Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been sentenced to four months in jail for a bar fight during which a man was stabbed. Diamond – who played Screech in the TV show – was convicted earlier this month of two charges of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct. The 38-year-old actor had said he was defending his ...

Greece and its international creditors remain in deadlock over its debt crisis despite a series of top-level meetings. The country faces default if it fails to make a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF debt repayment by Tuesday. A meeting of European finance ministers has ended without progress. In a separate meeting, Greece’s prime minster and its lenders also failed to find an ...

National Pensions Scheme Authority (NAPSA) has urged members of the public to take keen interest in knowing their contributions being remitted to NAPSA. Speaking during the employers/employee seminar in Lusaka today, NAPSA Director General Charles Mpundu says as a pension scheme, NAPSA operates on principles of social insurance which means that the rights to benefits are earned based on contributions ...

Zambia Sugar PLC’s annual production is projected to increase from its current 45,000 metric tonnes to 92, 000 metric tonnes following an investment boots of US$60 million in its operations. This has been made possible by the signing of a Product Alignment and Refinery project financing agreement the company has entered into with Barclays Bank and Stanbic Bank by way ...

The annual rate of inflation for June 2015 has increased to 7.1% from 6.9% recorded in May, 2015. Central Statistical Office (CSO) Director John Kalumbi says of the total 7.1% annual rate of inflation, food and non alcoholic beverages accounted for 3.7%, while non food products accounted for 3.4%. Mr Kalumbi says the increase is attributed to increases in non ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has called on the Office of the Auditor General to urgently probe the expenditures made by Government to Reedbuck Lodge to carter for the lodging of the former first family. And YALI has also called for the probing of operational expenditures at the Road Development Agency (RDA) on fuels for staff pool vehicles. YALI ...

About seventy two families in Lusaka have been left in the cold after being evicted from the flats they were occupying believed to have been purchased by Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Commissioner Emily Sikazwe. The evicted families have argued that the ANC flats located on plot number 105A along Mwayi Road in Villa Elizabeth did not belong to the ...

Republican Vice President Inonge Wina says Africa should begin focusing on issues relating to the free movement of people following the projection by UNICEF that the continent’s population is likely to reach 2.4 billion in the next 35 years. Ms Wina says Ministers responsible for migration should be better placed to inform the agenda on movement of people at both ...

Visiting UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary Carlos Lopes says there is no need to press the panic button over Zambia’s budget deficit. Dr. Lopes says Zambians and other stakeholders should remain calm. He says any other country in Europe, with the exception of Germany and the Netherlands, would be happy to have such a budget deficit Zambia ...