ONE Direction‘s surprise new single Drag Me Down has topped the charts in a whopping 82 countries on the first day of its release. Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan celebrated their biggest global success just hours after Zayn Malik signed a new solo record deal. Despite the huge reaction, the boys overlooked the use of any Twitter ...

Family members of Osama Bin Laden were on board a plane which crashed in Hampshire, the Saudi Arabian embassy in the UK has said. The private jet crashed near Blackbushe Airport, Yateley, on Friday killing the pilot and all three passengers. In a statement on Twitter, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, offered condolences ...

A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 has arrived in Paris from the French island where it was found on Wednesday. The object, believed to be part of a wing, was flown to the French capital from Reunion in the Indian Ocean. From there it will be transported to a defence ministry laboratory in ...

The Consumer Competition and Protection Commission (CCPC) has in the first half of 2015 received over 500 consumer complaints. CCPC Public Relations officer Hanford Chaaba says a number of these cases have been resolved while others are still being investigated. Mr. Chaaba says the commission is also trying to conclude the nine mergers received in the first half of 2015. ...

Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) says the review of the Zambia Development Act (ZDA) of 2006 is a positive development. CTPD Executive Director Isabel Mukelabai says the review of the ZDA Act should have a very strong element of building the monitoring capacity of ZDA as an institution. Ms. Mukelabai notes that the element of building the monitoring ...

Green Party President Peter Sinkamba says his party does not believe the solution to ending early child marriages lies in criminalizing the act. Mr. Sinkamba says resorting to criminalizing the act as a solution shows lack of understanding of the root cause of the vice. Mr. Sinkamba states that the root cause for early child marriages in Zambia is child ...

UPND Bweengwa Member of Parliament Highvie Hamududu has observed that too much talk with less action is Zambia’s biggest challenge. In an interview with Qfm News, Mr. Hamududu who is also chairperson of the Expanded Parliamentary Committee on Estimates is concerned that the people of Zambia are wrongly getting used to talking too much with less action. Mr. Hamududu says ...

Government has observed that the impact of load shedding on the recently projected end year GDP will be minimal. The Ministry of Finance is basing this on measures being put in place to increase production in various sectors of the economy owing to the current power deficit in the country. Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba has disclosed to Qfm ...