Works by Modigliani, Picasso and Thomas Gainsborough, owned by the former owner of Sotheby’s, are to be sold by the auction house later this year. A Alfred Taubman’s collection comprises more than 500 works and is valued at more than $500m (£328m). Taubman, who died in April aged 91, was a billionaire real estate developer who bought the UK auction ...

Hundreds of migrants stuck at a Budapest railway station for days have set off on foot, saying they intend to walk to Austria. Hungarian authorities are trying to contain thousands of people desperate to reach western Europe. Meanwhile European Union states are struggling to agree a common strategy to deal with the crisis. The head of the UN refugee agency ...

Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Emmanuel Mwamba has called for exchange programmes between schools in Zambia and South Africa as a way through which social and cultural disparities could be eliminated. Mr. Mwamba was speaking when a group of teachers from Mpunde Girls Secondary School of Kabwe and Ibex Hill School of Lusaka paid a courtesy call on him ...

National Empowerment Forum (NEF) Executive Director Edgar Siakachoma has dismissed assertions that local contractors fail to perform to satisfaction. Mr. Siakachoma says the poor performance by local contractors is mainly due to inadequate skills, capacity, finance and lack of machinery for them to carry out their works satisfactorily. He notes that most local contractors are unable to buy construction equipment ...

Radiation Protection Authority (RPA) Executive Director Boster Siwila says the movement of radioactive materials in the country needs strict monitoring measures. Mr. Siwila has tells QFM News that this is considering that Zambia is a transit country which foreign companies use to transport these radioactive materials. And Mr. Siwila says there is need to have qualified personnel to handle X-Ray ...

Health Deputy Minister Chitalu Chilufya says the misunderstanding over allowances which arose at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) involving junior Doctors has been resolved. Dr Chilufya tells QFM News that the misunderstanding did not affect senior doctors or other resident doctors, but those pursuing the postgraduate program. Dr. Chilufya says it is therefore wrong for some sections of the media ...

Two South Korean companies have shown interest to invest in the Zambian mining and energy industries as soon as they conclude consultations. Representatives from KEPCO KPS and LG International disclosed their interests when they met Zambia’s High Commissioner-Designate to South Africa, Emmanuel Mwamba in Pretoria yesterday. KEPCO KPS Chief Representative, Jason Lee told the High Commissioner that his company had ...

The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) says the power deficit the country is facing is a wake-up call on the need to come up with cost reflective electricity tariffs. ERB Executive Director Langiwe Lungu says the electricity crisis is also what the country needed to begin to appreciate other alternative sources of energy. Ms Lungu says the electricity crisis is also ...

Bayern Munich’s chief executive has warned of a growing “transfer tsunami” if the Bundesliga cannot compete with the Premier League’s spending power. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge wants Germany’s TV rights deal to be worth closer to the record £5.136bn the Premier League will receive over the next three years. Premier League clubs spent a record £870m on transfers this summer, compared to ...

KIAN Egan and Jodi Albert have had their first holiday as a family of 4. The pair took their sons Koa and Zekey for some quality time together in the sun. Jodi took to social media to share some truly adorable snaps from their family break. One showed former Westlife star Kian cradling the 3 month old as he and ...