Pep Guardiola’s rampant Manchester City will be keen to keep the momentum going as they open the hunt for Champions League glory against a diminished Feyenoord in Rotterdam on Wednesday. After mauling Liverpool 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday, City now travel to face the Dutch champions – who face a daunting prospect after a 15-year absence from the ...

Pedro Obiang and Andre Ayew scored to give West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic the perfect 49th birthday present as the Hammers beat Huddersfield Town 2-0 in the Premier League on Monday. Obiang got the opener via an enormous deflection and Bilic then pumped the air in relief as much as delight when Ghanaian star Ayew pounced to add the ...

The United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test. The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports – an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes. The US had originally proposed harsher sanctions including a total ban on oil imports. The vote ...

The BBC has spoken to Rohingya Muslims who suffered crippling injuries after apparently stepping on army landmines as they fled violence in Myanmar. One of them, a 15-year-old boy being treated in Bangladesh, lost both legs. A woman at the same hospital said she had trodden on a landmine after she and her family were fired on. It’s unclear who ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has observed that despite Zambia having the mineral resources that can be used for cobblestone technology in the road construction sector; the country is not utilizing the minerals. UNDP country director Colleen Zamba has attributed this to the fact that the technology has not been fully embraced in the country, and the absence of ...

Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) has described as unlawful the decision by the Acting Chief Registrar of the Judiciary to suspend a Livingstone based Class II Magistrate of the Subordinate Court, Benjamin Mwelwa from duty. PeP President Sean Tembo has told QTV News that his party has since written to the Acting Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Charles Kafunda to ...

The Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has expressed concern over the happenings at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM). UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says the issue of subcontracting by KCM must be carefully managed to avoid job losses as was the case last year when thousands of miners lost their jobs. He says the UPND will do everything possible to ...

At least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources say. Militants detonated a roadside bomb near the town of el-Arish, reportedly destroying three armoured vehicles and a fourth with signal-jamming equipment. They then opened fire with machine guns at survivors of the blast. The interior ...

British American Tobacco has stressed the need for increased enforcement towards the curbing of illicit tobacco trade in the country which is accounting for more than K200 million worth of tax per year. Speaking during a media breakfast meeting, BAT Managing Director, Godfrey Machanzi said legal tobacco businesses face extinction in Zambia, putting local employment under threat due to increasing ...

The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) says it has in the first half of 2017 recorded US$12 billion in pledged investments. In a statement, ZDA Public Relations Officer Russel Haamubbi says 29,000 jobs are projected to be created. He says the agency has recorded an increase in both value of Investment Certificates of Registration issued and projected jobs compared to the ...