Anaesthetic gas may have been used against Jenson Button and his wife Jessica during a burglary in France, the Formula 1 driver’s spokesman says. Two men, who stole jewellery including Jessica’s engagement ring, may have pumped gas through the air conditioning before Monday’s break-in, he said. The spokesman said they were unharmed but “unsurprisingly shaken”. But medical experts said they ...

One Direction have topped the UK singles chart with their new single Drag Me Down. The track broke streaming records, earning the highest first-week streams for a single in the UK with 2.03m plays. Indie band The Maccabees have scored their first number one album with Marks To Prove It, just 1,300 copies ahead of Lianne La Havas’ Blood. Cilla ...

France has launched air, land and sea searches on and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris which could be linked to MH370. Malaysia has said a wing section found on the French Indian Ocean island came from the lost Malaysia Airlines flight. But French investigators have yet to confirm the link. The relatives of ...

Vice President Inonge Wina says Government is committed to improving the health sector in the country. Speaking this morning when she received a donation of Medical Equipment and Disposables worth K178,000 from OK Investment Zambia Limited, Ms Wina thanked OK Investment Limited for supplementing Government’s efforts to improve the health status of Zambia through the strengthening of health service delivery. ...

Government has reiterated its commitment to take advantage of Zambia’s status as a land locked to country’s to accelerate development. Transport, Works, Supply and Communication Minister Yamfwa Mukanga says government will continue with its infrastructure projects to ensure the country becomes more land linked with the view of opening up more opportunities for investment. Mr. Mukanga says government believes that ...

University of Zambia (UNZA) acting vice chancellor Enala Tembo says the teaching profession is key in the realization of government’s goal of turning Zambia into a highly literate nation by 2030. Speaking when she graced the 4th graduation of 500 secondary school teachers at Paglory College of Education in Kabwe today, Professor Tembo says it is the responsibility of the ...

Visiting French Finance Minister Segolene Royal has called on African countries to use regional bodies to exert pressure on highly industrialized countries to cut down their green gas emissions. Ms. Royal thinks that using regional bodies such as SADC and COMESA will have more impact. She is of the view that highly industrialized countries like the US, CHINA and Canada ...

UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema says latest threats by President Edgar Lungu against leaders in the opposition such as his Vice President Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, FDD leader Edith Nawakwi, Chongwe PF MP Silvia Masebo, and others is a clear case of abuse of state machinery to oppress the opposition and other dissenting voices in the country. Mr Hichilema in a statement ...

President Edgar Lungu has congratulated Patriotic Front (PF) members for the party’s resounding victory in yesterday’s Bangweulu Constituency Parliamentary by-election in Samfya District of Luapula Province. President Lungu has expressed happiness for the hard work and team spirit that the PF exhibited during campaigns for the ruling party’s candidate Anthony Kasandwe who has scooped the by-election with a land-slide victory ...

Opposition Rainbow Party Leader, Wynter Kabimba says his party’s victory in the Kapililonga ward by-election in Isoka district of Muchinga province shows that the party is formidable and ready to compete with other political parties. Mr Kabimba says he is happy that the party he formed barely seven ago has managed to scoop its first local government seat. And Mr. ...