US President Donald Trump says sexual misconduct claims against his Supreme Court nominee are “totally political”, as a second woman came forward. Speaking at the United Nations in New York on Monday, Mr Trump said Brett Kavanaugh is “outstanding”, adding: “I am with him all the way.” The latest allegation is that the nominee once exposed himself to a Yale ...

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is heading to the White House amid reports he is expecting to be fired. It follows a report that America’s second most senior law official talked last year about ousting Mr Trump and secretly recording him. In a radio interview aired on Monday, Mr Trump said he had not decided whether to fire Mr ...

Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela has assured Zambians that the investment government is putting into the modernization of the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport and the construction of the new airport in Ndola is fully secure. Speaking when he conducted a tour of construction works at KK international airport in Lusaka, Mr Chitotela says the airport is 100 ...

Police in Kitwe on the Copperbelt province are holding 19 men for allegedly stealing 32 bags of copper concentrate weighing 32,000Kg which was destined for Chambeshi copper mine (CCS) smelter from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Copperbelt province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga says the truck was intercepted as the bags were being offloaded and replaced with the same weight of black ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) Leader Hakainde Hichilema has vowed to continue speaking for the majority. In a statement obtained by Q-News, Mr. Hichilema says there is need to continue talking so that President Edgar Lungu and the ruling Patriotic (PF) can be made to account. He has charged that Zambia is headed for more troubled and disastrous times ...

Serena Williams says she wants to move on from her controversial US Open final defeat by Naomi Osaka. In the final, the American was given a code violation for coaching, incurred a point penalty for racquet smashing and was docked a game for verbal abuse. Williams denies she was being coached from the stands, despite her coach Patrick Mouratoglou saying ...

An emotional Tiger Woods completed an astonishing comeback to win the season-ending Tour Championship by two shots and record his first win in five years. The 42-year-old’s victory in Atlanta was his 80th PGA Tour title – only fellow American Sam Snead has more – but his first since August 2013. Less than a year ago he was 1,199 in ...

An Indonesian teenager who looked after a fishing hut survived for 49 days at sea by drinking seawater and cooking fish over wood taken from his vessel, it has emerged. Aldi Novel Adilang was on the hut 125km (77 miles) off the Indonesian coast in mid-July when heavy winds caused its moorings to snap, casting the 19-year-old adrift. He ended ...

A second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against President Donald Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, a Yale university classmate of the judge, told the New Yorker that Mr Kavanaugh had exposed his genitals at a dormitory party. The judge has denied both allegations, labelling the latest “a smear”. The make-up of the ...

President Edgar Lungu has been urged to expedite the process of selecting a suitably qualified person to fill the vacant position of Auditor General. MMD Felix Mutati led faction National Secretary Raphael Nakachinda is urging President Lungu to realize the need to speed up the process of finding a competent person to occupy the office of auditor general. Mr. Nakachinda ...