Legendary American singer Tina Turner has described how she was forced to watch a live sex show on the night she married blues musician Ike Turner. She told the Mail on Sunday the “experience was so disturbing… I suppressed it, scratched it out”. Tina was 22 when she married Ike, and they went on to become a famous husband-and-wife R&B ...

China has confirmed it is holding the missing head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei. Beijing said he was under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption body for unspecified breaches of the law. Mr Meng, also a vice-minister of public security in China, was reported missing after travelling from the city of Lyon in France, where Interpol is based, to China on 25 ...

National Restoration Party (NAREP) Lusaka Province Chairman Allan Sakala has blamed members of parliament from Lusaka Province for the under-developed at local level. Mr. Sakala says mps from Lusaka Province lack the political to fulfill their campaign promises to the people of the in their respective constituencies. According to Mr. Sakala the people of Lusaka will continue to languish in ...

At least 50 people have died after an oil tanker collided with a car on a major road in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The incident occurred near the city of Kisantu, between the capital Kinshasa and the port of Matadi. One hundred people suffered second-degree burns, Atou Matabuana, the governor of Kongo Central region said. “The ...

Zambia Youths Association in the Fight against Corruption (ZYAFAC) has commended President Edgar Lungu for suspending Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Henry Tukombe to pave way for investigation into the alleged miss use of donor funds. ZYAFAC Executive Director Maurice Malambo the suspension of Mr. Tukombe was not done out of inductiveness. Mr. Malambo says the move shows that president ...

The far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, has won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. He will face the left-wing Workers’ Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, in the second round on 28 October after he failed to win the 50% of valid votes needed to win outright. With almost all the votes counted, Mr Bolsonaro had 46% and Mr Haddad 29%. Opinion ...

The National Union for Small-Scale Farmers of Zambia (NUSFAZ) has asked government to bring social cash transfer looters to book. Last month state house disclosed that Zambia refunded the £2.7 million to the British government which was meant for beneficiaries under the social cash transfer programme after the department for international development had requested for a refund following revelations of ...

The teaching council of Zambia (TCZ) has threatened to deregister teachers that will be found engaging in examination malpractice during examinations. TCZ Registrar Dr Ebby Mubanga has also warned teachers in a habit of engaging themselves in examination malpractice across the country to desist from cheating or face the full wrath of the law. He says this development has a ...

Ugly scenes marred UFC 229 as lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov began a brawl by the octagon after beating Conor McGregor. Seconds after landing a fourth-round submission, the Russian vaulted the cage and headed towards Irishman McGregor’s team, prompting a melee. Meanwhile, McGregor was involved in a bust-up in the octagon with members of his opponent’s team. Three of Nurmagomedov’s party ...

Opera singer Montserrat Caballé, whose duet with Freddie Mercury became the signature song of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, has died aged 85. She had been suffering from health complaints for some time and was admitted to hospital in Barcelona last month, according to news agency Efe. Her career spanned 50 years. She had stints with the Basel Opera and Bremen ...