Real Madrid will demand an astonishing €200million – approximately £174.5m – for Cristiano Ronaldo this summer. Widespread reports on Friday claimed Ronaldo had made the ‘irreversible’ decision to leave the Bernabeu following his charge of tax fraud in Spain. The motives behind his desire to leave the club, where he’s won three Champions League titles, are yet to be revealed ...

Cristiano Ronaldo, battling accusations of tax evasion and speculation over his club future, is concentrating only on the Confederations Cup, his Portugal teammate Andre Silva said on Friday. “He takes this tournament very seriously and is focused. He is motivated, just like me,” said the 21-year-old Silva at a news conference in Kazan ahead of Portugal’s opening Confederations Cup match ...

An Afghan soldier has attacked foreign troops at a military base, with a number of US soldiers wounded. The attack took place at a base in the north of the country on Saturday. Abdul Qahar Araam, the Afghan Army’s 209th Corps spokesman, said the soldier shot four US troops inside the base, news agency Reuters reported. The US military command, ...

Seven US Navy crew members are missing after their ship collided with a merchant vessel off the coast of Japan. Among the injured is the USS Fitzgerald’s commanding officer, who was taken to hospital by helicopter. The destroyer collided with the container ship about 56 nautical miles (104km) south-west of Yokosuka. Aerial images showed heavy damage to the Navy ship’s ...

John Lithgow as The Joker? It’s not as crackpot as it appears, as the star of The Crown was once in the frame to play the comic book supervillain. Correction: The lanky 71-year-old was actually tapped to play Batman’s cackling nemesis TWICE – first in a Joe Dante movie that never got made, and again in Tim Burton’s 1989 blockbuster. ...

The US singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first person to reach 100m followers on Twitter. The website posted a video compilation of her tweets since she joined in 2009 along with a message saying “Today, we #WITNESS history”. Witness is the name of Perry’s new album. The Canadian singer Justin Bieber has the second highest number of followers at ...

PF Media Director Sunday Chanda says Zambians from all walks of life must rise above any political and other affiliation to condemn violent schemes being orchestrated by the Opposition UPND in demanding for release of their leader Hakainde Hichilema who is appearing before the Courts of Law. Mr. Chanda says in recent weeks, the nation has heard of a group ...

The Zambia Police Service has dispelled information circulating on social media linking the breaking of Petez Trading Shop in Lusaka’s Chachacha road to politics. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has called on all those generating false information and issuing alarming statements to desist forthwith. Ms Katongo has explained to QTV News in a statement that there was an attempted breaking at ...

First Lady Esther Lungu has commended Good Shepherd Sisters of Chipata for supplementing government’s efforts in providing quality health care to communities. Good Shepherd Sisters of Chipata are running Twalumba Health center in Chaloshi ward of Chibombo district in Central province. Mrs. Lungu says she is delighted that the Catholic Church has continued working alongside government in providing health services ...

Four Political Parties have condemned calls by the three church mother bodies calling for the release of incarcerated United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema. The four political parties include Christian Congress Party, Zambia Republican Party, New Congress Party and Citizens Democratic Party. Christian Congress Party President Dr. Danny Pule says the church is supposed to unite the ...