Jermain Defoe scored two penalties as third-bottom Sunderland prevented Liverpool from significantly trimming Chelsea’s lead at the Premier League summit in a 2-2 draw on Monday. Liverpool twice went ahead, through Daniel Sturridge and Sadio Mane, but Defoe’s two spot-kicks mean Chelsea will move eight points clear if they win at Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday. “I am not able to ...

Zambians have been urged to embrace condom use this year in order to prevent the spread of HIV virus. Center for Reproductive Health Education (CRHE) Executive Director Amos Mwale says Zambia is still not doing well in terms of condom use. Mr. Mwale says this is one of the important methods of preventing the spread of HIV and thus the ...

Syrian rebel groups say they are suspending participation in the preparations for peace talks planned by Russia and Turkey for later this month. In a statement, the rebels cited “many and large violations” of the ceasefire by the Syrian government as the reason for their move. Turkey and Russia brokered the ceasefire deal that has mostly held since last Thursday. ...

Art critic and author John Berger has died at the age of 90. His best-known work was Ways of Seeing, a criticism of western cultural aesthetics, but he also won the Booker Prize for his novel G. He donated half the prize money to the radical African-American movement, the Black Panthers. His editor Tom Overton, who is writing Berger’s biography, ...

Billie Lourd says the support she’s received since the deaths of her mother, Carrie Fisher, and her grandmother, Debbie Reynolds, has given her strength. Lourd posted a photo of herself with Fisher and Reynolds on her official Instagram account Monday. She wrote, “Receiving all of your prayers and kind words over the past week has given me strength during a ...

The Zambia Center for Inter Party Dialogue (ZCID) has cautioned political parties against tolerating unnecessary internal wrangles as they have the potential to weaken the party. And the center is also encouraging political parties to respect their party constitutions if democracy within the party can flourish. ZCID Executive Director Horrance Chilando tells Q News via telephone that it is important ...

Government has been called upon to ensure that it reviews its final list of students selected to benefit from the students loans under the Bursaries Committee. The Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) is calling on the Ministry of Higher Education to re-screen the final selected list of students that will be on student bursary scheme to eliminate those children ...

Three Church Members died on the spot while five others are nursing serious injuries after blocks of the church fell on them in Mazabuka District yesterday. Southern Province Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso has confirmed the development to QTV News that the three bodies of the deceased are in Mazabuka General Hospital Mortuary. Mr. Kapeso has identified the deceased as David ...

Arsene Wenger hailed Olivier Giroud’s stunning strike against Crystal Palace as a work of art and one of the top five Arsenal goals in his 20-year reign. Giroud’s mid-air back-flicked volley gave Arsenal the lead at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday and set them on course for a 2-0 victory. The France forward’s sumptuous scorpion-kick goal will undoubtedly rate as ...

Bournemouth striker Benik Afobe has pulled out of the Africa Cup of Nations finals to stay with his Premier League team despite recently switching his allegiance from England to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese football federation (Fecofa) on Monday confirmed Afobe’s withdrawal from a 31-man preliminary squad, who have gathered in Yaounde, Cameroon for pre-tournament preparations. “Afobe has ...