Manchester United can “fight for the title and the Champions League” with the right signings this summer, says midfielder Nemanja Matic. United lost the FA Cup final 1-0 to Chelsea on Saturday and finished second in the Premier League, 19 points behind Manchester City. That came after spending £148m on transfers last summer, including big-money signings Matic and Romelu Lukaku. ...

Janet Jackson made her stance on the #MeToo movement clear as she won the Icon prize at the Billboard awards. “I believe that, for all of our challenges, we live at a glorious moment in history,” she said. “At long last, women have made it clear that we will no longer be controlled, manipulated, or abused. “I stand with those ...

He’s been referred to as one of the UK’s most eligible bachelors but Hollywood star Hugh Grant is finally tying the knot. The Four Weddings and a Funeral and Paddington star is set to wed the mother of three of his children, Swedish TV producer, Anna Eberstein. A photograph of the wedding banns has been posted in several newspapers. Grant, ...

The mother of a 16-year-old girl killed in the Santa Fe school shooting has said her daughter had publicly rejected suspected killer Dimitrios Pagourtzis just days before the attack. Sadie Rodriguez said her daughter Shana Fisher had endured “four months of problems from this boy”. “He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no,” she told the ...

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has won re-election to another six-year term, in a vote marred by an opposition boycott and claims of vote-rigging. Amid food shortages stemming from a severe economic crisis turnout was low. The National Electoral Council (CNE) put it at just 46% but the opposition alleges it was even lower. The main opposition candidate, Henri Falcón, rejected ...

The Finnish Government has commended the Zambian government for promoting regional integration as the country embarks on the industrialization agenda. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Secretary of State-Development Policy, Elina Kalkku encouraged the Zambian government to expand the market access for its products and services through promotion of regional integration. Mrs Kalkku said this in Finland when ...

Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) Programme Officer Andisen Zulu says about 1, 991 children have been registered for birth certificates in Lusaka Province under the children welfare hubs project. Early this month, the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched the children welfare hubs project in Lusaka province. The project ...

Chief Katyetye of the Tambo speaking people of Isoka District says hunger is looming in his chiefdom arising from the hiccups encountered in the implementation of the e-voucher system under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP). The Traditional Leader has told QTV News that farmers received the inputs very late, some as late as March 2018. He says his people ...

Zambia has called on the Commonwealth to pool resources for a collective campaign against Non Communicable Diseases. Zambia is experiencing an epidemiological transition culminating in a complex dual burden of disease of Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases. Minister of health Dr Chitalu Chilufya said this during the Commonwealth Ministers of Health meeting on Non Communicable Diseases and Universal Health Coverage ...

Former national boxing heavyweight champion Joseph Chingangu has pleaded not guilty to two counts of theft from a motor vehicle and Assault Occasioning actual bodily harm in Lusaka magistrate court In the first  count , Chingangu  on May 7th, 2018 in Lusaka district is alleged to have stolen two suitcases  containing clothes altogether valued at K1,440 , from a motor vehicle ...