Justin Bieber has scored his third UK number one single with the song Love Yourself. The track, which was streamed 5.97 million times, knocked his previous chart topper, Sorry, to number two. The last living artists to achieve the feat were The Beatles in 1963 with She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand. Former number one Hello ...

Marko Arnautovic scored twice to hand Stoke City a superb victory over Premier League leaders Manchester City. Xherdan Shaqiri created both of Arnautovic’s first-half goals in an inspired performance by the Swiss. Arnautovic nudged home Shaqiri’s cross for the opener and then finished off a perfectly weighted through ball from his team-mate. Man City, with Sergio Aguero and Yaya Toure ...

President Barack Obama says the US “will not be terrorised” by Wednesday’s mass shootings in San Bernardino, California. “We are strong. And we are resilient,” he said in his weekly radio address, adding that it was “entirely possible” the two attackers had been radicalised. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, killed 14 people before being shot ...

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has urged consumers of agro inputs such as small scale farmers in Zambia to be wary of unscrupulous traders this farming season. CCPC Public Relations Manager Hanford Chaaba says there are some unscrupulous traders who are in the habit of selling counterfeit and substandard seeds and agro chemicals. Mr. Chaaba says the CCPC ...

United Liberal Party (ULP) president Sakwiba Sikota says Zambia currently has a unique opportunity to make progress in Constitution development. Mr. Sikota has also observed that given the stage at which the current constitution making process has reached it is clear that the Country cannot have a referendum separate from the 2016 general elections. He says the cost of holding ...

Political parties in the Country have been advised against entertaining the thought of having early 2016 general elections. The Zambian Voice thinks that having early general elections will temper with Zambia’s democratic process which entails that a general election is only to be held after a complete five years. Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says opposition political should also be wary ...

Despite losing two of their of their 2015 CAF U23 Africa Cup of Nations matches, Zambia will hope to at least exit with dignity and beat hosts Senegal on Friday. Fighton Simukonda’s side lost 2-1 to Tunisia and 3-2 to South Africa with their upcoming match against the Lions presenting an opportunity for them to bag a win. Chipolopolo did ...

RAF jets have carried out their second set of air strikes in Syria since MPs backed military action against so-called Islamic State in the country. It is understood the targets were oil fields again, and the mission involved two Tornados and, for the first time, two Typhoons. Four Tornado jets launched the first air strikes on Thursday, hitting the Omar ...

The Operation Young Vote (OYV) is delighted its civic and voter education through its Lembe Sani Ma Vote, Be on Point Campaign is yielding results. OYV Executive Director Guess Nyirenda says his organization has taken note that the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has captured more than 1.2 million voters in the ongoing countrywide mobile voter registration exercise whose target ...

The PF Central Committee chairperson for Information Frank Bwalya says it is political propaganda to assume that the PF government does not care about the People. Father Bwalya says his party is aware that there IS some opposition political parties that are trying convince people that the PF government does care about the challenges that people are going through. He ...