Bayern Munich have signed teenage Juventus winger Kingsley Coman on a two-year loan deal with the option to make it permanent. The Italian champions revealed  Bayern will pay £5m for the loan deal and can buy the 19-year-old for £16m in 2017. Bayern had said “details of the agreement will remain undisclosed”. The France Under-21 international will have played for ...

British neurologist Oliver Sacks has died at the age of 82, it has been confirmed. The acclaimed author, whose book Awakenings inspired an Oscar nominated film of the same name, reportedly died of cancer at his home in New York. In February he wrote about his illness – and being “face to face with dying”. His publicist Jacqui Graham paid ...

Police in Austria say three Syrian children and their families who were rescued from a minivan containing 26 migrants have disappeared from the hospital where they were being treated. The children were taken to hospital in the town of Braunau am Inn on Friday suffering from severe dehydration. Their discovery came a day after 71 bodies, thought to be migrants, ...

The Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has called on government to update the nation on how it is helping to resolve conflicts in South Sudan. SACCORD has taken note that it has been some time since the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir appealed to President Edgar Lungu to intervene in resolving the conflicts of ...

The opposition All People’s Congress (APC) has added its voice in calling upon the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) to take the lead in practicing intra party democracy. APC president Nason Msoni says as a party in government the ruling PF must act exemplary in practicing intra party democracy. Mr. Msoni has told QFM News that his party is concerned with ...

Opposition UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has accused the PF government of not buying maize from Farmers in Eastern Province. Mr. Hichilema notes that this is notwithstanding the fact that the floor price of for maize at K75 per 50kg bag is too low. He has wondered whether this does not therefore amount to what he has termed as a ‘Don’t ...

Former Prime Minister under the UNIP government Malimba Masheke has charged that life under the PF government has now reached the extent of being unmanageable. General Masheke has observed that currently it does not matter whether one is a small scale businessman or a farmer life in Zambia has simply become unmanageable. In an interview with Qfm News by telephone ...

Government says it intends to focus on consolidating its fiscal position to safeguard macro-economic stability during the 2016-2018 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). This is besides its intentions of creating fiscal space for vital public services and infrastructure development. Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba says in this regard, government will realign its fiscal trajectory while protecting critical social programmes ...

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho believes his team’s title hopes would already be over if they played in another league. Crystal Palace’s 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge on Saturday means the champions are eight points behind leaders Manchester City after four games. “Four points in four matches is a very bad start,” said Mourinho, whose side won their first four games ...

The Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth has revealed he was working for MI6 for more than 20 years. The disclosure comes with the publication of the author’s autobiography The Outsider: My Life. Fans have long suspected that Forsyth, 77, acclaimed for his highly realistic spy novels, may have been involved with British Intelligence. He told the BBC it ...