Arda Turan grabbed a hat-trick to lead Barcelona to a 4-0 rout of Borussia Moenchengladbach on Tuesday while Lionel Messi fell short of equalling Cristiano Ronaldo’s Champions League group stage goal record. With Barca already through as group C winners and the other positions also determined, the main attraction at the Nou Camp was the possibility of Messi matching Ronaldo’s ...

Beyonce has scooped nine nominations for the 2017 Grammy Awards, extending her lead as the most-nominated woman in Grammys history. The star is up for the main prize, album of the year, for her ambitious visual album, Lemonade, which tackles themes of race and female identity. Her single Formation is also up for song and record of the year. In ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba says Zambia cannot afford not to have President Edgar Lungu open up other avenues abroad for accessing funding. Mr. Kalaba says this is especially in the wake of challenges the country is now facing in accessing resources from traditional allies. In an interview with QTV Mr. Kalaba has disclosed that countries in the Middle East ...

US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to cut government costs by cancelling the order for new planes to carry the American president. Mr Trump tweeted: “Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!” The government has a contract with Boeing to ...

The Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) says it has made steady progress in investigating former Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr. Chishimba Kambwili on alleged corrupt practices. ACC Public Relations Manager Timothy Moono says the commission is almost done with the investigations and will soon issue its findings in the next few weeks. Mr. Moono says the inquiry opened into corruption ...

Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya has observed Zambia’s health system is experiencing a challenge of a dual disease burden of both non communicable and communicable diseases. Speaking at the United Nations inter agency task force prevention and control of non communicable diseases in Lusaka today, Dr. Chilufya says non communicable diseases are particularly seen to negatively affect the economic growth ...

President Edgar Lungu says climate change is one of the most urgent and pressing matters that the African Continent is facing because of its negative effects on the developmental agenda. The Head of State said this at State House this morning when he received letters of credence from the Ambassador-designate of the Kingdom of Morocco Saadiael Alaoui. President Lungu says ...

Helen Marten has won the Turner Prize, and has said she intends to share the £25,000 award with her fellow nominees. The 31-year-old, the youngest of the shortlisted artists, was announced as the winner at Tate Britain in London. The prestigious prize is awarded to a British artist, under the age of 50, considered to have put on the best ...

Thousands of mourners are flocking to pay their respects to J Jayalalitha, one of India’s most influential and colourful politicians. The 68-year-old chief minister of Tamil Nadu state suffered a heart attack on Sunday night and died at 23:30 local time (18:00 GMT) on Monday, Chennai’s Apollo Hospital says. Her body, draped in the Indian flag, is on display at ...

The Confederation of Trade Unions in Zambia (COTUZ) says it is vindicated when it warned that the political violence that some political parties were engaging in would backfire at some point. COTUZ President Joe Kamutumwa says the nullification of some parliamentary seats should serve as a lesson to all political parties that think violence is the solution to ascending into ...