The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia has expressed disappointment with acts of violence and intimidation against journalists in the course of their duty during the just ended by-elections in Chilanga and Mwense. In a statement, MISA Zambia vice Chairperson Hyde Haguta says MISA is concerned with the numerous reports of journalists’ lives being threatened by political party supporters, ...

Government says the Financial Intelligence Centre has broken internal communication channels by availing to the public information that was first supposed to be reported to government and law enforcement agencies. Addressing a media briefing in Lusaka, Chief Government spokesperson who is also minister of information and broadcasting services, Dora Siliya explained that the information gathered by the FIC is intelligence ...

Katy Perry didn’t mean to go viral last week when she left a comment on Orlando Bloom’s Instagram account. “I need a season pass for that ass,” Bloom’s on-off girlfriend wrote after he posted an image promoting his new West End role in Killer Joe. A few minutes went by before she followed up with: “Oops. I meant to send ...

Kim Kardashian West screamed and cried when she heard about her husband Kanye’s controversial comments on slavery, she has revealed. The US rapper said last month that the enslavement of African Americans over centuries might have been a “choice”. He has since addressed the row with his wife in a song on his new album. In an interview with ET ...

He is considered the most powerful figure in football in Croatia, but now Zdravko Mamic has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for corruption. Mamic was found guilty of siphoning off millions of euros in transfer fees when he was an executive at Dinamo Zagreb. On the eve of the verdict he fled across the border into Bosnia. Among ...

Manchester United have signed the “best young full-back in Europe” in £19m Porto defender Diogo Dalot, says Jose Mourinho. The 19-year-old, who has made seven senior appearances, has signed a five-year deal at United. Dalot has represented Portugal from under-15 to under-21 level and made his Porto debut in October. “The chance of coming to the biggest club in the ...

A White House communications aide who was criticised for reportedly joking about Senator John McCain’s cancer has left her role, an official says. It was reported last month that Kelly Sadler had said the Arizona Republican’s vote did not matter because he was “dying anyway”. The remark came during a meeting about CIA Director Gina Haspel, whose nomination Mr McCain ...

Spain’s first astronaut, Pedro Duque, has been named minister of science by the country’s new Socialist government. Prime Minister and self-labelled feminist Pedro Sánchez is expected to appoint a women-majority cabinet, in contrast to the male-dominated executives of ousted PM Mariano Rajoy. Women will take the deputy premiership, and the economy and finance portfolios. Mr Duque, 55, last went to ...

A US judge who was widely criticised for his leniency towards a campus rapist has been removed from office by voters. Judge Aaron Persky handed Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner a six-month sentence in June 2016. But county judges in California are elected, and if a petition to remove them from office garners enough signatures a vote will be held. ...

Lusaka Businessman Chrispine Chiinda says there is need to move the responsibility of garbage collection from the Councils to a private entity created by an Act of Parliament. Mr. Chiinda has told QTV News that as the country’s population is growing, there is need to start thinking of whether City Councils will have the capacity to collect garbage. He is ...