Snow returned to parts of Britain amid warnings that temperatures could plummet to -8C (18F) over the weekend. London, the East Midlands and Yorkshire were all hit by heavy snow showers. Up to 10cm (4in) was expected to fall in parts of England and Wales, with the Midlands braced for the heaviest snowfall and London [...]

Top Ten headlines today, 07th February, 2012 1. MMD sues Commerce Minister Bob Sichinga for claiming that it printed K3 billion in fake notes used to bribe rural voters ahead of the last elections and Bank of Zambia dismisses the claim as false. 2. KCM will tomorrow (8th February 2012) sponsor 20 staff to Equatorial [...]

The cold snap will get worse in the coming days, which will see predicted rain to fall as snow, forecasters said. Scotland and northern England are likely to see wintery showers on Saturday while the midlands and the south-east are expected to see snow on Sunday. Daytime temperatures are already up to five degrees lower [...]

A Chirumhanzu man appealed to police for help after being ordered to pay lobola and marry a goat he was allegedly seen having sex with. The 34-year-old was caught sexually abusing the goat last Wednesday night by the animal’s owners. The Sithole family is said to have assaulted him before dumping the animal at his [...]

Two porn companies in California have been fined after its actors failed to use condoms on set. Larry Flynt’s Hustler and Forsaken Pictures are accused of not protecting performers from exposure to disease. The porn industry in America, worth billions of dollars, asks its actors to have monthly blood tests but wearing a condom on [...]

Gareth Bull, who only bought the winning ticket after rain forced him to delay starting work, and wife Catherine said they have their eye on luxuries such as a box at Manchester United and a holiday villa. But after winning £40,627,241 in Friday’s Euromillions draw, it was the landing carpet that was the most pressing [...]

Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster’s English-language outlet, has been forced off the air in the UK after Ofcom revoked its licence for breaching the Communications Act. Ofcom found that Press TV’s practice of running its editorial oversight from Tehran, Iran‘s capital, is in breach of broadcasting licence rules in the UK. “Ofcom has decided [...]

KOLKATA – An Indian high school teacher, with a monthly salary of around $700, was astounded when a routine online check of his bank account showed a balance of almost $10 billion. Parijat Saha, from the town of Balurghat in West Bengal state, said he had checked his State Bank of India account online last [...]

Britain is the record holder for highest number of single parents in a country. The latest figures show that the number of single parent families with dependent children in the UK went up from 1,745,000 in 2001 to 1,958,000 last year. Over the same period, the number of co-habiting couples went up from 2.1million to [...]

(Reuters) – Three Czechs who were arrested and charged with espionage in Zambia escaped from custody and returned to their country, Zambia state radio reported on Saturday, quoting home affairs minister Kennedy Sakeni. Th Czech Foreign Ministry said on Jan. 1, the three had returned home, but did not provide further details. The three Czechs, [...]

Jamaica’s new prime minister says the time has come for the Caribbean country to cut ties with the British monarchy. In her inaugural address, Portia Simpson Miller said her government’s top priorities would be creating jobs and dealing with the nation’s ailing economy, but complete independence is also on her wish list. The announcement comes [...]

The Queen has visited Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in hospital in Cambridgeshire, where he has been treated for a blocked coronary artery. The duke, 90, had a coronary stent fitted after he was taken to hospital suffering chest pains. He is in “good spirits” but remains under observation at Papworth Hospital, Buckingham Palace said. [...]