British billionaire Nick Candy is “actively exploring a number of options for a potential bid” to buy Chelsea. Candy, a boyhood Chelsea fan, is trying to form a consortium with a number of international investors. Roman Abramovich put the club up for sale last week amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. Candy, 49, believes his background as ...

We’ve been bringing you news from Mariupol – one of the Ukrainian cities hit worst by the fighting. In the last few hours, a maternity and children’s hospital has reportedly been hit by a Russian strike. Myhajlo Todurov – who used to live in Mariupol before moving to Slovenia two decades ago – says he has not heard from his ...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has heard how medical personnel at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) started using 25 of the 50 VG70 Covid-19 ICU ventilators that were procured by the Ministry of Health in 2020 without being trained on how to use the equipment. This came to light when the Committee led by Chairperson Warren Mwambazi conducted a visit ...

Local Government and Rural Development Minister Garry Nkombo has named some of the companies linked to Patriotic Front officials which were awarded contracts under his ministry but did not do the works despite being paid. Mr Nkombo says some of those who benefited from the contracts for which works have not been delivered are still in parliament. He says his ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo has justified Zambia’s vote in favour of the UN resolution demanding the cessation of Russian hostilities against Ukraine. In a ministerial statement to Parliament on Zambia’s vote at the UN, Mr Kakubo says Zambia’s vote was guided by principles the country has stood for years of not supporting war. He says ...

Ed Sheeran has serenaded London’s High Court in an attempt to prove he did not copy portions of his 2017 hit Shape of You from another artist. The star is accused of lifting his song’s “Oh I, oh I, oh I” hook from Sami Chokri’s 2015 single Oh Why. In court, he sang elements of Nina Simone’s Feeling Good and ...

Talented Ukrainian actor and TV presenter Pasha Lee has been killed in battle as Russian forces bombarded the town of Irpin outside the capital Kyiv. Lee, 33, had signed up for Ukraine’s territorial defence force in the first days of the war. A resident of Irpin, he appeared in several films and his voice featured in the Ukrainian versions of ...

We’ve heard about the thousands of Indian students who have been stuck in Ukraine and desperate to get out – but one student has been going in the opposite direction. Sainikesh, 21, went to study aerospace engineering in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 2018 from the Indian southern state of Tamil Nadu. When the war broke out, his family asked him to return home ...

Ukraine’s state run nuclear company says electricity supplies to the former power plant at Chernobyl have been cut and has warned that radioactive substances could be released, because spent nuclear fuel cannot be cooled. In a post of the telegram messaging app, Energoatom says a high-voltage line feeding the plant was disconnected after it was damaged during Russia’s seizure of ...

Ruling UPND Mwinilunga Member of Parliament Newton Samakayi has recommended that government should come up with uniform policy measures for all gold mines in the country. Mr. Samakayi has told QTV News that if the operations at Kasenseli gold mine in Mwinilunga district have been halted, the same should extend to all gold mines in the country. He has noted ...