On Saturday in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will engage in the richest fight in history at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. So much has been said about the numbers involved that it is sometimes difficult to remember there are other things at stake – namely the WBC, WBA and WBO welterweight titles and the title of best ...

R&B and soul singer Ben E King, best known for the classic song Stand By Me, has died at the age of 76. King started his career in the late 1950s with The Drifters, singing hits including There Goes My Baby and Save The Last Dance For Me. After going solo, he hit the US top five with Stand By ...

Baltimore’s top prosecutor says she plans to file criminal charges against six officers in the case of Freddie Gray who died in police custody. State prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said the death of the 25-year-old black man was a homicide, and his arrest was illegal. The charges range from second-degree murder to assault. Protesters cheered as she made the announcement. Gray ...

Amnesty International has observed that Media freedom has increasingly come under attack in many countries across Africa with journalists targeted for exposing corruption and human rights violations. In a statement made available to Qfm News ahead of World Press Freedom Day which falls on the third of this month, Amnesty International is calling on all African governments to ensure that ...

President Edgar Lungu has lifted the two years wage freeze which was imposed on the public service from last year. President Lungu has also directed the Secretary to the Cabinet and relevant government officials to open negotiations with public service unions. He has further given a deadline of up to December 2015 by which time all negotiations for new conditions ...

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says they hope to sort Daniel Sturridge’s “underlying issues” with injury after sending him to the United States again. The 25-year-old, who has played 18 times this season, has flown out to a specialist to fix his hip injury. He also spent a month in the US in December to deal with a thigh problem. Rodgers ...

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars have given The Gap Band a writing credit on their huge hit Uptown Funk, due to its similarities with their 1979 track Oops Up Side Your Head. Uptown Funk, which topped the UK chart for seven weeks and the US chart for 14, originally had six songwriters. The five writers of The Gap Band’s hit ...

Towns and villages near the epicentre of Saturday’s earthquake in central Nepal have suffered “almost total devastation”, the Red Cross says. Assessment teams say they have found survivors in a “desperate situation”. Nepal says 6,204 people are known to have died in the 7.8-magnitude quake and 13,932 were injured. But the fate of thousands more in many remote areas remains ...

A civil rights activist in Chipata Eastern Province has called on youths to take interest in the forth coming 2016 general elections. Maxwell Phiri says time has come for youths to begin taking part in active politics as opposed to being used as tools of violence. He is advising youths take up leadership positions and realize their potential to participate ...

The Patriotic Front government has been reminded to realize that the solution to improving people’s lives still lies in dealing with the issue of enacting Zambia’s new constitution. Government is being advised to hasten in providing direction and building consensus on the way forward with respect to ensuring that the country has a new constitution before the 2016 general elections ...