Red carpets at Hollywood screenings of new films starring Nicole Kidman and Viola Davis have been cancelled as wildfires rage in California. Stars were expected to step out before screenings of movies including Davis’s Widows and Kidman’s Destroyer at the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest. But the glitzy red carpet walks were called off out of respect to those affected ...

Action hero Jack Reacher is to get a reboot for the small screen with a new actor in the lead role after creator Lee Child admitted Tom Cruise, who played him in two films, is too short. In Child’s books, Reacher is described as 6ft 5in tall with hands the size of dinner plates. Cruise is 5ft 7in. “Cruise, for ...

England’s record goalscorer Wayne Rooney will captain the side and wear the number 10 shirt when he comes on to make his farewell appearance. Rooney, 33, retired from international football in 2017 but will win his 120th and final cap in a friendly against the United States at Wembley on Thursday. Fabian Delph will start the match as captain but ...

Theresa May’s most senior ministers are deciding whether to back the draft EU withdrawal agreement in a crucial cabinet meeting. The meeting inside 10 Downing Street is thought to be over-running by as much as two hours. The prime minister is expected to make a statement afterwards. Tory MPs and opposition parties have lined up to criticise what is thought ...

US President Donald Trump’s tweets mocking his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron were inappropriate and showed a lack of “common decency”, France says. On Tuesday, Mr Trump attacked Mr Macron over nationalism, plans for a European army and the French leader’s ratings. “We were marking the murder of 130 of our people,” French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said, referring to the ...

The Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection ,Basic Needs Basket for a family of five living in Lusaka for the month of October 2018 recorded a reduction by K38 from K5, 356.36 recorded in September to K5, 317.95. The JCTR, however, states that the October BNB did not keep pace with the national inflation because the price reduction recorded in selected ...

The Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) is hoping that Police in Ndola will accord them the same treatment accorded to Patriotic Front members who were demonstrating against attacks on the Chinese when they escort party leader Hakainde Hichilema for questioning next week on Tuesday. UPND Deputy Spokesperson, Patrick Mucheleka says the PF protest went incident free as the ...

Three people have died while two others sustained serious injuries in a road traffic accident which happened yesterday around 19:30 hours at Mtetezi area about 18 Kilometres east of Katete district after the vehicle they were in hit into a stationary truck along the Great East Road. Police Deputy Public Relations Officer, Rae Hamoonga says among the deceased are two ...

First deputy speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Namugala has reserved ruling on a point of order raised by upnd Choma Central Member of Parliament Cornelius Mweetwa on whether housing and infrastructure development minister Ronald Chitotela was in order to continue threatening his life. Rising on a point of order, Mr. Mweetwa said he fears for his life and his ...

Comic book legend Stan Lee was working on a new superhero with his daughter before his death, she has revealed. Speaking to TMZ, JC Lee described the character – Dirt Man – as “the last little angel we’ve got tucked away”. She told the entertainment site: “I said, ‘Daddy, please – no clatter, no steel, no any of that. Let’s ...