A leading Hollywood designer has described the wacky outfits worn by Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry to present the Oscar for best costume design as “tasteless and insulting”. The actors wore spoof period costumes inspired by the film The Favourite. They included a group of fake rabbits on the train of McCarthy’s dress. Arianne Phillips, who has been nominated ...

Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian military jets and captured a pilot in a major escalation between the nuclear powers over Kashmir. India said it had lost one MiG-21 fighter and demanded the immediate and safe return of its pilot. Pakistani PM Imran Khan said the two sides could not afford a miscalculation with the weapons they had. ...

US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has claimed Mr Trump knew beforehand about a leak of hacked Democratic emails. In congressional testimony, Cohen also said Mr Trump directed plans for a Moscow skyscraper even during his White House campaign. In a blistering opening statement, Cohen branded Mr Trump a “racist”, a “conman” and a “cheat”. Mr Trump hit ...

Eastern province Minister Makebi Zulu has called for increased participation by local investors in the upcoming Eastern province Investment Expo and Conference. The Expo which will be held from 26th to 30th August, 2019 is expected to attract 500 local and foreign exhibiting companies with over 3,000 people attending the conference. Speaking during the weekly media briefing at the Ministry ...

Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Jean Kapata has noted the need for concerted efforts in addressing climate change if the serious threat it is posing to development is to be countered. Ms. Kapata says the fight against Climate Change requires the support of civil society organisations as government alone cannot to succeed. Speaking when she officiated at the First General Assembly ...

The Opposition Alliance has announced that People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) has seized to be part of the alliance. Speaking during a media briefing Opposition Alliance Chairperson of the media and finance subcommittees, Sean Tembo says this now leaves the number of opposition parties in the Alliance at 12. Mr. Tembo has explained using an analogy that the alliance during ...

Minister of Justice Given Lubinda says the tendency by the opposition political parties to clamor for participation in the governance of the state is misplaced. Mr. Lubinda says the role of the opposition anywhere in the world is to come up with alternative programmes and not to be participants in the governance of the country. He says at any given ...

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says government will not be deterred from tabling the Constitution amendment bill. Speaking at a media briefing, Ms Siliya says whether the opposition is against the Constitution bill being table in Parliament does not matter at this stage. She says government is bigger than any political party and therefore what the opposition is saying about ...

Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has declared the Roan parliamentary seat which was held by National Democratic Party Consultant Chishimba Kambwili vacant. This follows a point of order raised by Eastern province Minister Makebi Zulu on 21st February, 2019 whether Mr Kambwili was in order to cross the floor by being a member of the National Democratic Congress ...

Two HP servers sent up to the International Space Station in August 2017 as an experiment have still not come back to Earth, three months after their intended return. Together, they make up the Spaceborne Computer, which operates on the open-source Linux system and has supercomputer processing power. They were sent up to see how durable they would be in ...