Kanye West might have met with President Donald Trump shaking hands and smiling for the cameras only a short time ago, but now the controversial rapper has appeared to drop his support for the new president – at least based on his social media activity. Kim Kardashian’s husband has seemingly deleted all of his Twitter posts about Trump. According to ...

A French judge has ordered ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in an illegal campaign finance case. Mr Sarkozy faces accusations that his party falsified accounts in order to hide 18m euros (£15m; $20m) of campaign spending in 2012. Mr Sarkozy denies he was aware of the overspending, and will appeal against the order to stand trial. He lost the ...

At least 20 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Supreme Court in Kabul, officials say. Another 45 people were injured. The number of casualties is expected to rise. The bomber targeted the car park of the court compound, reports say. The injured are being ferried to hospitals. There was no immediate claim for the attack, which ...

Barcelona were handed a huge boost ahead of the second leg of their Copa del Rey semifinal home to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday as Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta were named in Luis Enrique’s squad. Busquets missed the last four games due to ankle ligament damage, whilst Iniesta hasn’t featured in nearly a month with a hamstring problem. Gerard Pique ...

ZESCO United Football Cub management has restructured the technical bench following the appointment of Zlatko Krmpotic as Head Coach. Tenant Chembo maintains his position as first assistant coach while Alfred Lupiya has been deployed to head Zesco Victoria falls in Livingstone while goalkeeper trainer Stephen Mwansa’s contract has not been renewed. Former Vic Falls head coach Emmanuel Siwale takes over ...

Minister of Finance Felix Mutati says the decision by the European Investment Bank to set-up a country office is a clear endorsement by Europe that Zambia is one of the best investment destinations in Africa. And the European Investment Bank [EIB] is in the process of arranging blend finance comprising loans and grants to Zambia totaling Euro 320 million this ...

The past three weeks have been eventful, with the government lockdown on the English speaking part of Cameroon. However, Cameroon captain Benjamin Moukandjo hopes that winning the 2017 Afcon trophy will bring the country together. “Football brings people together. It helps us to celebrate a beautiful moment. Our country is facing a tough moment but we are just football players. ...

President Edgar Lungu says Zambia needs to consult widely before any decision to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is made. The African Union (AU) has called for the mass withdrawal of member states from the International Criminal Court. But President Lungu has told Journalists shortly before departure for Botswana this afternoon that he will need to ask ...

An inquiry examining institutional sex abuse in Australia has heard 7% of the nation’s Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010. In one religious order, over 40% of church figures were accused of abuse. Over 4,440 people claim to have been victims between 1980 and 2015, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse was told. ...

Restoring President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven mainly Muslim countries would “unleash chaos again”, lawyers for two US states argue. Counsel for Washington and Minnesota urged a federal appeals court in San Francisco to maintain its nationwide temporary restraining order. They are being backed by technology firms which say the travel ban is harmful to their businesses. Trump ...