MIAMI –  Lou Pearlman, credited for starting the boy-band craze and launching the careers of the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync, has died in prison while serving a 25-year sentence for a massive Ponzi scheme. The Orlando Sentinel reports that according to a federal inmate database, the 62-year-old Pearlman died Friday. The cause of death was not immediately known. Pearlman’s $300 ...

Neymar scored the winning penalty as hosts Brazil beat Germany 5-4 on penalties in Rio to win their first men’s Olympic football gold medal. The game finished 1-1 after extra time, with Neymar’s first-half free-kick cancelled out by Max Meyer’s strike. In the shootout, Germany’s Nils Petersen had his penalty saved by Weverton before Neymar won it. It comes two ...

The murder of Hande Kader, a transgender woman, has caused an outcry in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul. Turkey remains conservative on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) issues, but on Sunday activists will stage a rare protest in Istanbul, writes Rengin Arslan of BBC Turkish. “Hande was one of the nicest people in the world. She was very calm ...

A blast at an outdoor wedding party in the south Turkish city of Gaziantep has killed at least 30 people and injured 94 more, the authorities say. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said so-called Islamic State (IS) was likely to have carried it out amid reports of a suicide bomber targeting the party. The attack, in an area popular with university ...

The Zambia National Women’s Lobby (ZNWL) says it has been vindicated on the outcome of the referendum. ZNWL Board chairperson Beauty Katebe had earlier predicted that the referendum was going to be a flop. Ms. Katebe says they saw what was happening during the polling day citing that a lot of people were just messing up the referendum which gave ...

The Southern Africa Center for Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has encouraged political parties to start concentrating on their roles after last week’s general elections. SACCORD Executive Director Boniface Cheembe says the opposition at this end are expected to start providing quality checks and balances on the government. Mr. Cheembe says the party in power is also expected to start ...

Political scientist Dr. Alex Ngoma says has observed the need for Zambians to agree on when the referendum can be held alone. Dr. Ngoma, who is also a lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA) in the school of social sciences, notes that Zambians should not be afraid to use resource on projects such as the referendum as it benefits ...