Several buses en route to evacuate the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. The convoy was travelling to Foah and Kefraya, besieged by rebel fighters. Pro-government forces are demanding people be allowed to leave the mainly Shia villages in order for the evacuation of east Aleppo to restart. Despite the ...

Former England assistant coach Gary Neville claims the Football Association let down Wayne Rooney with their handling of the controversy over his late-night behaviour at the national team hotel. England captain Rooney was pictured looking bleary-eyed and mingling with guests from a wedding reception at the England team hotel after their World Cup qualifier against Scotland last month. Manchester United ...

Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has called on government to devise a National Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2017-2021 that will be part of the Seventh National Development Plan. The Center feels that this will bring together all of the government’s plans and resource estimates for economic infrastructure development over the next five years. In a statement on understanding Zambia’s economic ...

Hope for Human Rights has called on both the government and other relevant stakeholders to next year focus on promoting human rights in the country. Executive Director Smart Chanda says the ending year 2016 has been a challenging year as far as where human rights are concerned. Mr. Chanda says 2016 being an election year, saw cases of political violence ...

Michelle Obama recently sat down with Oprah Winfrey for an interview that was previewed on “CBS This Morning” Friday in which she said following the election of President-elect Donald Trump, Americans now know what “not having hope feels like.” The show aired a clip of the sit-down that included a portion where the First Lady discusses the Presidential election. Winfrey ...

Blac Chyna is done. The 28-year-old model took to Instagram minutes after Rob Kardashian told his Snapchat followers that she had left their house with baby Dream to tell her side of the story. “I’M DONE!” Chyna wrote on Instagram. “This entire year I have done nothing but help Rob! It’s so SAD & PATHETIC how low he’d stoop to ...

Real Madrid suffered an almighty fright before a Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick hauled them back from 2-1 down and gave them a 4-2 win over rank outsiders Kashima Antlers in the Club World Cup final on Sunday. Two goals from Gaku Shibasaki stunned the European champions as the Japanese hosts took a 2-1 lead early in the second half before a ...

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav is to be freed on parole five years after being jailed for rape. An Israeli parole board ruled on Sunday that Katsav, 71, could walk free next week after serving five of his seven-year term. Two previous parole requests had been rejected. Katsav resigned from the largely ceremonial post in 2007 after being charged with ...

Zimbabwe’s governing Zanu-PF party has confirmed President Robert Mugabe as its candidate for the 2018 elections. Mr Mugabe, who is 92, has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980. At the party’s conference, the Zanu-PF youth wing even proposed that Mr Mugabe should be declared president for life. However, there have been unprecedented protests this year against Zimbabwe’s ...

Opposition Peoples Party President Mike Mulongoti has described the year 2016 as the most difficult year in the history of Zambia. Mr. Mulongoti says this is because Zambians faced numerous problems which made life unbearable for them. Mr. Mulongoti says there has been widespread despondency, brought about by severe hardships, rising cost of living, high levels of youth unemployment, collapsed ...