Five-weight world champion Floyd Mayweather has been stripped of the WBO welterweight belt won from Manny Pacquiao in May. The 38-year-old failed to pay the WBO a $200,000 (£128,000) fee to administer the fight by the 3 July deadline. Mayweather had been expected to relinquish the title by now, saying he planned to do so  following his points victory over ...

US comedian Bill Cosby admitted he obtained sedatives with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with, court papers from 2005 show. The unsealed files, obtained by the Associated Press news agency, show Mr Cosby made the admission in a sex abuse civil case brought by a woman. That case was settled for an undisclosed ...

The eurozone group says that Greece has submitted “no concrete proposals” for a new bailout, at a key meeting of finance ministers in Brussels. The eurozone had urged Greece to submit fresh plans after its people rejected a new draft bailout in a referendum. Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Greece planned to make an immediate bid for cash from a ...

Ruing Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davis Chama says his party will not relent at preaching peace in its politics. Mr. Chama says ruling PF has done a lot in the three years it has been in power and will not waste time on engaging in politics of violence. He says his party is only interested in talking about what ...

President Edgar Lungu has been urged to open his doors to nationalist advice that is being rendered by opposition political parties. President Lungu is being implored to keep in mind that some opposition political parties are aiming at serving the nation when they give him counsel. Opposition Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM) has also reminded President Lungu to be wary ...

Government has been counseled to realize that the incentive for wooing investments in Zambia’s electricity production lies in introducing cost reflective tariffs. Chairperson on the Expanded Parliamentary Committee on Estimates Highvie Hamududu is advising government to take note that like in any business electricity production must be viable. Mr. Hamududu has told Qfm News in an interview that this means ...

The Foundation for the Democratic Process (FODEP) Executive Director MacDonald Chipenzi has been accused of reducing his organization to a facade of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND). PF Media and Publicity Committee Vice Chairperson Sunday Chanda has alleged that Mr. Chipenzi is a fully-fledged UPND sympathizer. Mr. Chanda has told Qfm News in a statement that his ...

Opposition All People’s Congress (APC) says the apathy that has continued in the country’s by-elections is departure point to stop debating feasibility of holding a constitution referendum before 2016. In its argument the APC has relied on the recent Malambo, Mulobezi and Petauke Central by-elections in which voter turn out is said to be less than 30 percents of the ...

The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) Vision Ambassadors have observed that it is not possible for President Edgar Lungu to drift away from the vision under which the PF was founded. PF Vision Ambassadors Director for Publicity and Media Malama Mwansa says by virtue of being a lawyer President Lungu does respect the PF manifesto. Mr. Mwansa says this fact was ...

Jerry Weintraub – one of Hollywood’s most famous producers – has died aged 77, US media report. They say the man behind the Karate Kid and Ocean’s Eleven films passed away in Santa Barbara, California, with his family at his side. The cause of his death was not immediately known. Weintraub started his career in the music industry and later ...