Rangers had to be “a little bit lucky” to maintain their Scottish Premiership title hopes with a late comeback win over bottom side Dundee, says manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Connor Goldson turned home a loose ball in the 86th minute to make sure the defending champions go into the Old Firm derby three points behind Celtic. Rangers fell behind to ...

Runaway Ligue 1 leaders Paris St-Germain slipped to their biggest loss of the season with a dismal display at Monaco. Wissam Ben Yedder scored twice for the hosts, flicking in a near-post cross and converting a late penalty. In between, he created Monaco’s second, with Kevin Volland placing his shot past PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma. Mauricio Pochettino’s side have now ...

More than £42.7m has been raised in Comic Relief’s latest Red Nose Day broadcast, with a host of stars taking part in sketches and stunts. The charity show was broadcast from BBC studios in Salford for the first time. Highlights included Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders visiting The Repair Shop, and Matt Lucas and David Walliams reviving their Rock Profiles ...

Ukrainian military officials have claimed that almost 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion more than three weeks ago. In an update posted to the Facebook page of Ukraine’s general staff, officials said that 14,700 Russian troops have been killed in 25 days of fighting. The update also claimed that a huge amount of ...

Russia said on Sunday it had used a hypersonic missile to target a fuel deport in Ukraine, the second consecutive day it has launched the cutting-edge weapon. A strike on Saturday targeted an underground weapons facility, which Russia said was the first time it had used the advanced weaponry since the war began. The BBC could not verify Moscow’s claims. ...

The Ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) has announced its adopted candidates for the Mongu Mayoral By-Election and two other local government by-elections in northern and southern provinces. UPND Chairperson for Elections Gary Nkombo says the upnd has settled for Nyambe Muyumbana for the mayoral by-election which has been occasioned by the death of Nyambe Matakala who died in ...

Head of Nutrition at the children’s section of the University Teaching Hospital Pharaoh Banda has called on the Ministry of Green Economy and Environment to include the planting of fruit trees in their tree planting initiatives. Dr. Banda says fruits are very essential for good nutrition and having a variety of them planted across the country can help improve good ...

The Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board has awarded additional student loans to 2,780 first year students at the University of Zambia for the 2021-2022 Academic Year. Board Senior Corporate Communications Officer, Chiselwa Kawanda says this entails that for the first time, over 5,000 first year students have been awarded student loans in one university in one academic year. Ms ...

Government has revealed that the defense forces under the operation dubbed ‘Operation Ubutala Ii’ in Northern Province have moved out 15,333 by 50-killograms bags of maize in the satellite depots that are extremely difficult to access by the local transporters who have completely failed to move the stock.  Northern Province Provincial Minister Leonard  Mbao says this is out of the targeted ...

Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Country Coordinator Muketoi Wamunyima has doubted if the country will record bumper harvest in the 2021-2022 farming season. Mr. Wamunyima has told QTV news in an interview that indication are that a lot of farming fields have been affected with the outbreak of armyworms and dry spells as well as flooding and may not ...