Minister of Lands Jean Kapata says Chiefs will only be allowed to give out land once they secure 50 signatures of approval from their sub-chiefs once the revised national land policy is put in place. Ms Kapata says the land policy will also only allow viable investors to own land for a period of only 25 years and that no ...

Real Madrid centre-back Sergio Ramos has been handed a two-game suspension by Uefa for deliberately getting himself booked during his team’s Champions League last 16, first leg against Ajax. The Spaniard was already set to miss the second leg, with Real holding a 2-1 aggregate lead, but will now miss the first leg of the quarterfinals as well, should Real ...

Two men have told the BBC they were abused hundreds of times by Michael Jackson, from the ages of seven and 10. Wade Robson, 36, told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme the singer had sexually abused him from the age of seven and tried to rape him when he was 14. James Safechuck, 40, told the programme Jackson had sexually ...

Lady Gaga has laughed off the deluge of suggestive social media comments following her passionate duet with co-star Bradley Cooper at the Oscars. Rolling her eyes, she told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday: “People saw love, and guess what, that’s what we wanted you to see.” During their performance of Shallow, they gazed lovingly at each other and ...

The Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) has deregistered 24,713 companies of the 25,000 that were earmarked for deregistration in 2018 due non-compliance. And 27,591 businesses were registered by the agency in 2018 compared to 26,745 registered in 2017. PACRA Public Relations Officer Vaida Njovu says the bulk of the registrations are in wholesale and retail trade, financial and insurance ...

The United Party for National Development (UPND) has dismissed as fake reports circulating on social media that the party has made changes at Vice President level. UPND Spokesperson Charles Kakoma says Dr Geoffrey Mwamba remains the party’s Vice President. Mr Kakoma adds that UPND has no intentions of replacing Dr Mwamba with anybody else as Vice President. He has since ...

North Korea’s foreign minister says Pyongyang’s position will not change even if the US seeks further talks. Ri Yong Ho was speaking after a summit in Vietnam between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended without agreement. He said they asked only for partial sanctions relief, not a total lifting. But the Trump administration insists the ...

The United States is offering a reward of up to $1m (£750,000) for information about one of the sons of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Hamza Bin Laden is emerging as a leader of the Islamist militant group, officials say. He is thought to be based near the Afghan-Pakistani border. In recent years, he has released audio and ...