The absence of an injured Neymar from Paris St Germain’s line-up for next Tuesday’s Champions League last-16 tie will not boost Real Madrid’s chances of securing victory, the Liga side’s coach Zinedine Zidane said on Friday. The world’s most expensive player has been ruled out of action for three months after opting for surgery on a fractured metatarsal in an ...

For Britney Spears, the opportunity to expand into the fragrance market was heaven-scent. Think back to 2004. MSN Messenger, Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, the end of Friends and the start of X Factor. Britney was at the top of her game as a singer, having just released Toxic – the latest in a long line of utterly colossal pop bangers. ...

US President Donald Trump has said “trade wars are good”, amid controversy over his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. He tweeted that the US was “losing billions of dollars on trade” and would find a trade war “easy to win”. On Thursday he said steel imports would face a 25% tariff and aluminium 10%. Canada and ...

Theresa May has set out what she called “hard facts” about leaving the European Union, as she outlined her hopes for a future economic partnership. “We are leaving the single market, life is going to be different,” she told an audience at London’s Mansion House. Access to each others markets would be “less than it is now,” she acknowledged. But ...

Watford midfielder Etienne Capoue has signed a contract extension until 2022, the Premier League club said on Thursday. The 29-year-old Frenchman, who signed from Tottenham Hotspur in 2015, has played 92 matches for the club, scoring 10 goals. Capoue, capped seven times by France, cost Watford €5.7 million when he joined. Watford, six points above the relegation zone, face bottom ...

Russia has developed a new array of nuclear weapons that are invincible, according to President Vladimir Putin. Mr Putin made the claims as he laid out his key policies for a fourth presidential term, ahead of an election he is expected to win in 17 days’ time. The weapons he boasted of included a cruise missile that he said could ...

Barclays Africa Group has announced that it’s rebranding to ABSA Group Limited in all its operations across Africa including Zambia. Announcing the development, Barclays bank Zambia managing director Mzinga melu says Barclays Africa undertook extensive research internally and externally in a process that included more than 130, 000 conversations with employees and stakeholders about the brand and strategy of the ...

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has in collaboration with three Local Authorities in North-Western Province seized assorted goods worth over K4, 985 following three separate joint inspection operations conducted in over 56 trading places in February 2018. CCPC Public Relations Officer Namukolo Kasumpa tells QFM News in a statement that the items seized include soft drinks, biscuits, juices, ...

The Finnish Government has given eight civil society organizations 74,000 Euros to implement projects in the areas of environment and natural resources. The grants have been given under phase two of the Finnish funded project called the Civil Society Environment Fund (CSEF). Finnish Ambassador to Zambia, Timo Olkkonen says the funds will help address the needs of the civil society ...

Zambia has been ranked among the least countries in providing its citizens with information on how public funds are used. The latest open budget survey results for 2017 conducted in 115 in countries across six continents indicate that Zambia only scored 8 out of 100 in transparency of open budget index, 15 out of 100 in terms of public participation ...