Manchester United have assured disgruntled fans that the club’s priority is success on the pitch rather than making money, saying they are committed to “winning trophies at the highest level”. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s struggling team lost 2-0 at West Ham on Sunday to fall 10 points behind leaders Liverpool after just six Premier League games. United, who have been criticised ...

Fleabag, the savage BBC sitcom written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has become the first British show to win best comedy series at the Emmy Awards in the US. “It’s so wonderful and reassuring to know that a dirty, pervy, angry and messed-up woman can make it to the Emmys,” joked Waller-Bridge on stage on Sunday – referring to her ...

US President Donald Trump has confirmed he raised the subject of former Vice-President Joe Biden and his son in a July phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. But Mr Trump denied pressuring Ukraine to investigate his potential Democratic rival in next year’s election. His admission about July’s phone call stoked calls for Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings in Congress. ...

The first of 155,000 British tourists are being flown back home after travel agent Thomas Cook collapsed on Monday. The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is co-ordinating the repatriation, the biggest in peacetime, after the tour operator “ceased trading with immediate effect”. Thomas Cook’s administration puts 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide, including 9,000 in the UK. Boss Peter Fankhauser said ...

Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Killing Eve star Jodie Comer were among the big British winners at this year’s Emmy Awards. The ceremony, which recognises excellence in television, took place in Los Angeles on Sunday. Comer won best leading drama actress for playing Villanelle in Killing Eve. Fleabag star and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge took home the prize for best leading ...

Thomas Cook has collapsed after last-minute negotiations aimed at saving the 178-year-old holiday firm failed. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the tour operator had “ceased trading with immediate effect”. It has also triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation, aimed at bringing more than 150,000 British holidaymakers home. Peter Fankhauser, Thomas Cook’s chief executive, said the firm’s collapse was ...

Institute of Economic and Social Research (INESOR) Assistant Director Joseph Simbaya has noted the need for Zambia to begin translating various research being conducted on poverty into policy and workable programs. Dr. Simbaya has told QTV news that Zambia is doing quite well in terms of conducting research on social and economic issues but most of the research findings are ...

ICOZ Board Chairperson Bishop David Masupa The Independent Church of Zambia has reiterated its position on the need to maintain Zambia as a Christian nation in the constitution amendment bill no.10 of 2019. Recently the Ruling Patriotic Front recommended the deletion of the word Christian in article 4 of the constitution amendment bill no.10 of 2019. Appearing before the Parliamentary ...

The Zambia National Men’s Network for Gender and Development( ZNMNGD) has called on government to establish separate correctional facilities for sexual offenders in the country.  Organization National Coordinator  Nelson Banda says this will help to segregate  them from other criminals as a form of punishment and placing shame on perpetrators as  an intervention to curb Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV). ...

UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani Opposition United Party for National Development [UPND] Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development, Moono Mapani has described as embarrassing failure by government to tell the nation the hunger situation in the country. On Thursday, minister in the office of the vice president revealed that more than 53 districts in Zambia are ...