Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he does not want players “who do not want to stay here” following midfielder Brahim Diaz’s move to Real Madrid. The 19-year-old has signed a six-and-a-half-year contract worth more than £21m with the Spanish giants, and was unveiled at the Bernabeu on Monday. Spaniard Diaz joined City from Malaga aged 14 in 2013 and ...

Susan Boyle may have risen to fame on Britain’s Got Talent, but her recent appearance on the American version of the show has got everyone talking. She performed her cover of Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones on America’s Got Talent: The Champions on Monday night. Boyle received the show’s highest accolade when judge Mel B pressed her golden buzzer ...

An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend has reiterated her plea for asylum in Canada, the United States, Australia or the UK. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun refused to board a flight from Bangkok to Kuwait on Monday and barricaded herself into her airport hotel room. She said she feared her family would kill her for renouncing Islam. ...

Government has directed the Lusaka City Council (LCC) to surcharge owners of about 2700 mobile money booths operating illegally in Lusaka. And the LCC has given a 21 days ultimatum to mobile service operators in the country to ensure that mobile money booths are designated legal, safe and healthy places to trade from. The directive and ultimatum follows a meeting ...

The opposition Economic and Equity Party (EEP) has challenged the three church mother bodies leading the National Dialogue to state the agenda being followed in the dialogue process. EEP president Chilufya Tayali says his party wants the three church mother bodies to also clarify the impasse that is there between and the Zambia Center for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID). In a ...

The government of Switzerland has hailed the bilateral relations and economic cooperation that exists between Zambia and that country. Federal Councillor and Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis says his country and Zambia have since independence enjoyed good relations. Mr. Cassis says following the establishment of a Swiss Consulate in Zambia in 1969 after recognizing ...

The Ministry of Health has declined to disclose the exact condition of Richard Zulu, the Chipata boy, who on Monday in Lusaka underwent an operation to remove the remaining needles embedded in his body. It is also not clear how many foreign objects were removed from the boy’s body when local surgeons operated on him at the University Teaching Hospital ...