A US singer has filed a sexual assault claim against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. Joy Villa says Mr Lewandowski hit her twice on the backside during an event in Washington last month. She told the US media she spoke to the police on Christmas Eve, having been persuaded to launch a formal complaint by friends. Mr ...

Celtic winger Jonny Hayes is expected to miss the rest of the season after breaking his leg in the Scottish champions’ 2-0 win at Dundee. Hayes was carried off in the first half following a challenge by Dundee defender Josh Meekings in Tuesday’s Scottish Premiership clash. The 30-year-old had scored his first goal for the league leaders against Aberdeen on ...

A historic tree that has stood at the White House for nearly 200 years is scheduled to be cut back. The “Jackson” magnolia was planted by President Andrew Jackson as a tribute to his recently deceased wife. It has been a backdrop to historic ceremonies and even featured on the $20 note between 1928 and 1988. But experts say the ...

A senior UN official says he fears children waiting to be evacuated from a besieged rebel-held area of the Syrian capital, Damascus, are being used as bargaining chips. UN special envoy to Syria Jan Egeland told the BBC he understood that rebels had agreed to release government workers in exchange for the children. Another 12 patients were evacuated on Wednesday, ...

Kaombe Ward Councilor in Mwense District of Luapula Province Geoffrey Lukwesa has appealed to government to enhance economic participation of people in the area by according them with decent trading shelters. Mr. Lukwesa complains that it is devastating that people would be trading in thatched shelters. He says people in his ward have the capacity to engage in lucrative businesses ...

Mulobezi Member of Parliament Alfred Mandumbwa says agro-dealers in his constituency have started receiving farming inputs. Mr. Mandumbwa however complains that farmers have not yet started receiving inputs because their e-voucher cards have not yet been activated. He laments that this is when the district commissioner in the area has started ferrying farmers to go and collect their cards. He ...

Stakeholders have condemned the shooting of six Zambians by a Chinese-owned Ebenezer tubombeshe mine. Governance activist Leslie Chikuse has called on the Zambia police service to act in apprehending the perpetrators of this violent and mindless crime. Mr. Chikuse is demanding that the police do everything in their power to arrest those responsible for this outrage and bring them to ...

The party of national unity (PNU) says it will take approximately 3 to 4 years for Zambia’s agriculture sector to recover from the shocks that the PF Administration has caused on the sector. Party Secretary General Kasote Singogo tells Q news that government has thus far mishandled the entire agriculture sector. He says this is due to the incompetence in ...