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. ...

Some of football’s biggest names remain linked with a move to China but a 100 percent tax on transfer fees looks likely to hit spending when the country’s transfer window opens on Monday. Wayne Rooney, Diego Costa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are among the stars rumoured to be considering big-money moves to the Chinese Super League (CSL), which has been smashing ...

Ghana’s Black Princesses have been drawn to face Algeria in the qualifiers to the 2018 Fifa Under-20 Women’s World Cup. Nineteen African countries will vie for the two available slots to represent the continent at next year’s World Cup to be hosted by France. Six countries have been drawn in the preliminary round of the four-stage qualifying tournament for Africa. ...

A team of US doctors have found “no sign of botulism” in the American student freed by North Korea after more than 15 months in captivity. The regime had said the 22-year-old Otto Warmbier’s coma was caused last year by botulism and a sleeping pill he took after his trial. He has not spoken since his return to his family ...

Police have warned they may never be able to identify all of the people who died in the fire that engulfed a west London block of flats. Emergency services are to spend a third day searching for bodies in the burnt-out Grenfell Tower in North Kensington. Seventeen people are known to have died but that figure is set to rise, ...

The Ministry of General Education says it has trained over 1,400 teachers in mathematics, science and technological subjects under the fast track education program between 2015 to date. The fast track teacher education program which has been running since 2012 is a modular distance education program which enables teachers to attend residential school during holidays and the program is being ...

Patriotic Front Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri says it is surprising to hear claims by some that the suspension of UPND Members of Parliament is unconstitutional. Mrs. Phiri has told Journalists in Lusaka that there is nothing wrong with the decision made by Speaker of the National Assembly to suspend the 48 UPND MPs. She says when she served as ...

Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza says the 30 days suspension slapped on 48 UPND Members of Parliament by the Speaker of the National Assembly is illegal. Mr. Mwanza has explained that according to order 72(3) of the National Assembly Standing Orders, if a member of parliament shows contempt against Parliament or the presiding officer for the ...

Referees at this year’s Confederations Cup in Russia will have the power to abandon games over discriminatory behaviour by fans as part of a three-step procedure to promote fair-play during the tournament, governing body Fifa has said. The procedure allows referees to halt the match and make a public announcement over discriminatory fan behaviour, temporarily suspend the game if the ...

A jury deliberating Bill Cosby’s sex assault trial has told the judge they are deadlocked on day four of their deliberations. But the judge has instructed the panel to return to continue trying to reach a verdict. If the seven men and five women cannot reach a unanimous decision a mistrial will be declared. Cosby, 79, is accused of drugging ...