The Great British Bake Off has been nominated for a prestigious Rose d’Or award, which recognises the best in TV and radio entertainment programming. The BBC One show is nominated in the reality and factual entertainment category, against Swedish hidden camera programme Who Cares? and Canadian fly-on-the-wall parking show Street Jungle. British nominees account for 24 out of the 33 ...

In her first interview since historic elections, Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC her party has won a parliamentary majority. Early results point to a sweeping victory for her National League for Democracy (NLD), but final official results will not be known for days. In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Fergal Keane, Ms Suu ...

The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has challenged the Zambia Police Service to also pull down all PF regalia which have been displayed in different locations in the country. The Police in Lusaka over the weekend pulled down at least 87 Chitenge materials, UPND party regalia, which were displayed on some sections of the Great East Road. But ...

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) has expressed concern with the delays in concluding the teacher recruitment exercise for the year 2015. CSPR Civic Participation and Advocacy Programme Officer Maxson Nkhoma says it is shocking that despite the 2015 national budget having a budgetary allocation for the recruitment of 5000 teachers across the Country, the exercise seem to have ...

PF Kasama Central candidate Kelvin Sampa says he is interested to know why Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa resigned from government in the manner that he did. Mr. Sampa says this especially that the Matero Member of Parliament was appointed to be his campaign manager for the anticipated Kasama Central Parliamentary by-election. He has told Qfm News from Kasama ...

The Road Traffic and Safety Agency (RTSA) has announced plans of introducing an effective way of printing out drivers’ licenses upon passing the road tests. The agency has hinted that the temporal drivers’ license that is issued to a motorist upon completion of the road tests will be a thing of the past as the motorist will be issued with ...

PF Secretary General Davies Chama has clarified that the decision not to lift suspensions among party members in Eastern Province was a resolution made by the party’s Central Committee. Mr. Chama has explained that the decision was made owing to the unresolved issues that still need to be addressed in the Province. He has told Qfm in an interview that ...

The Zambian Voice says it is concerned about disgruntled PF members that are complaining over President Edgar Lungu’s decision to embrace non PF members in his government. Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says his organization thinks that there is something that needs to be looked at in the decision that President Lungu has made. Mr. Tayali has wondered whether the 2011 ...

Global temperatures are set to rise more than one degree above pre-industrial levels according to the UK’s Met Office. Figures from January to September this year are already 1.02C above the average between 1850 and 1900. If temperatures remain as predicted, 2015 will be the first year to breach this key threshold. The world would then be half way towards ...

Russia should be banned from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report has recommended. Wada’s independent commission examined allegations of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics, which also implicated the IAAF, the sport’s world governing body. It also wants five athletes and five coaches to get lifetime doping bans. The report also identified “systemic failures” in the IAAF ...