Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are too similar – and need to diversify to survive. “The streaming services are all charging $9.99 and everyone has the same music,” he told the BBC. “And it’s really nice. You get whatever song you want, you get your playlists – but there’s got to be more interaction between the artist ...

The first person to win the Eurovision Song Contest, Lys Assia, has died at the age of 94, competition organisers have announced. She took the prize for Switzerland in 1956, with the song Refrain, and went on to perform in two more contests. Lys Assia died on Saturday at the Zollikerberg Hospital in Zurich. Eurovision described her as the “first ...

Protests broke out across the Spanish region of Catalonia on Sunday after former leader Carles Puigdemont was taken into custody in Germany. Mr Puigdemont, who is wanted in Spain for sedition and rebellion, was detained by German police acting on a European arrest warrant. He will appear before a German judge later on Monday. Clashes between protesters and police in ...

At least 48 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. A further 27 people are missing and as many as 41 children may be among the victims, Russian officials say. The blaze started on an upper floor of the Winter Cherry complex while many of the ...

Vision ambassadors, Chairperson, Misheck Kombe are saddened by the events that have in the recent past seen youths been used as tools of violence by politicians. But Mr. Kombe has however told q-news that vision ambassadors believes that youths are a people who have the potential to influence  positive change in their communities and should therefore, desist from being used as tools of ...

UPND Sinazongwe Member of Parliament Gift Sialubalo has reaffirms his promise that he will fulfill pledges he made during campaigns. Mr. Sialubalo, however, urged residents to put political differences aside and join him in developing the constituency. He says his priority will be to ensure that his constituents, especially the youth, get an education to enable them secure jobs and ...

MISA Zambia has  has hinted that the 2018 MISA-Zambia awards will like any previous awards recognized journalists from across the country who will exhibit professionalism in their reporting in terms of picture  and sounds qualities and the contents of their stories. MISA Zambia Programs Manager Jane Chirwa she has told q-news that entrants for the 2018 MISA- Zambia awards are ...

Chainama hills College Hospital Public Relations Officer George Tafuna has recognized the need for parliament to pass a mental health bill. In an interview with Q-news Mr. Tafuna notes that the country needs a mental health bill owing to that fact that the hospital is still operating under the mental disorder act of 1951 and that it cannot fully address ...

Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) Executive Director, Mweenge Chifwembe remains optimistic of a successful political dialogue process involving the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and opposition united party for national development (UPND). However, Mr. Chifwembe does not want to witness a repeat of failed dialogue process convened ahead the Thursday 11th august 2016 august general elections, as opposition and civic bodies ...