Juventus full-back Dani Alves has confirmed that he is leaving the Italian champions after a season in Turin in a posting on his Instagram account on Tuesday. “Today our professional relationship ends and I will carry away with me all those who truly make Juve a great club,” said the 34-year-old Brazilian in a lengthy post. Alves, who joined Juve ...

Colombia’s Farc rebel group has formally ended its existence as an armed group, putting an end to half a century of violent conflict. In a ceremony which ended the disarmament process, President Juan Manuel Santos said the “peace was real and irreversible”. The former guerrillas will now work on forming a political party. “Farewell to war. Farewell to arms, welcome ...

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has been attacked by grenades dropped from a helicopter in what President Nicolás Maduro called a “terrorist attack”. Footage on social media shows a police helicopter circling over the city before shots and a loud bang are heard. The police officer said to have piloted the stolen aircraft issued a statement denouncing the “criminal government”. President Maduro ...

Police have arrested the key suspect in the video that has gone viral of a woman being beaten and stripped naked on suspicious of having an affair with a married man. The incident is reported to have happened on 18th June, 2017 in Makeni Villa after the accused person suspected the victim to having an intimate relationship with her husband. ...

ZESCO has restored power to all areas affected by the vandalism of the two pylons in Kafue on Friday last week. ZESCO Spokesperson Henry Kapata told Q-news that power was restored to all the affected areas at 14:00 hours today. Mr. Kapata has explained that the act of vandalism affected electricity supply to Lusaka West, Kafue West and Mumbwa areas. ...

She’s a global pop icon, they are G20 leaders. So what happened when Rihanna tweeted some of the world’s most powerful men to talk about their commitment to education in the developing world? Well, some of them responded and their exchanges are there for us all to see on social media. It started earlier this week when the singer and ...

Australia’s deputy prime minister has threatened US actor Johnny Depp with perjury charges in a new instalment of the “war on terrier”. The Pirates of the Caribbean star and then-wife Amber Heard failed to declare their dogs to Australian customs after arriving by private jet in 2015. Ms Heard escaped conviction and the pair released an unusual apology video. But ...

Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results. The amount is the regulator’s largest penalty to date against a company accused of distorting the market. The ruling also orders Google to end its anti-competitive ...

Tourism and Arts Minister Charles Banda says the transformation of the Zambia Wildlife Authority into the Department of National Parks and Wildlife has started yielding positive results including the improvement in revenue collection. Mr Banda has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that as at December 2016, revenue from non consumptive tourism activities in the national parks amounted to seventy ...

Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack. British advertising agency WPP is among those to say its IT systems have been disrupted as a consequence. Ukrainian firms, including the state power company and Kiev’s main airport were among the first to report issues. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has also had ...