Manchester City have signed 19-year-old Brazilian winger Gabriel Jesus from Palmeiras for £27m plus add-ons. Jesus has agreed a five-year deal but will stay with Palmeiras until the end of the Brazilian season in December. City regard the player as the best young talent in South America and fought off interest from Barcelona. Jesus was voted the best newcomer in ...

The director of comic book film Suicide Squad has shrugged off its bad reviews, saying he “made it for the fans”. “I love the movie and believe in it,” David Ayer wrote on Twitter, calling it the “best experience of my life”. Several critics have slammed the movie, with Screen Daily bashing its “mediocre storytelling… reliance on ghastly CGI and ...

Fresh divisions are emerging within the US Republican Party over its presidential candidate Donald Trump. Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump’s “demagoguery” had undermined the national fabric. Senior party activist Jan Halper-Hayes told the BBC she thought Mr Trump was “psychologically unbalanced”. In the latest controversy, Mr Trump has refused to support two ...

The ruling PF has challenged MMD faction leader Nevers Mumba to seriously consider resigning from politics as it thinks he has proved to be a failure. PF Secretary General Davies Chama has particularly encouraged Dr. Mumba to repent and concentrate more on his seeming forsaken career of being a pastor. In an interview with QTV News Mr. Chama says his ...

Unionized workers at University of Zambia (UNZA) Great East campus have gone on a go slow following nonpayment of their July salaries. The University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU), the University of Zambia Professional Staff Union (UNZAPROSU) and the University of Zambia and Allied Workers Union (UNZAAWU) have demanded that government pays them their salaries before resuming work. ...

Two armed robbers behind yesterday’s shooting where a police officer was shot and later died in Lusaka are former prisoners. And the police in Lusaka have recovered a Toyota Allion that was used in the Aggravated robbery yesterday. Yesterday between 9hrs and 10hrs, Constable Pytihas Ntulukila, who was accompanying a cash van, was shot in the abdomen by four armed ...