The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realise as it is one of the world’s biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the WHO charged Tuesday.

At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of South Korea's Jeju island, there are 13 tombstones bearing the Ko family name -- Kim's relatives through his mother, Ko Yong Hui. Jong Un is the third member of the Kim family to rule North Korea, following...

Novak Djokovic renews his 16-year rivalry with Rafael Nadal at the French Open on Tuesday with a semi-final spot at stake and where victory for the world number one could end the 13-time champion’s Roland Garros career.

A large section of the 10-storey Metropol building that was under construction in a busy street in the city of Abadan crashed to the ground on May 23, leading to one of the country's deadliest disasters in recent years. "The total number of fatalit...

On their three-day visit the IOC delegation will also look at road access in and around Sapporo, which was the first Asian city to host a Winter Olympics in 1972. A city official told AFP that the visit is "part of our continued dialogue" with the ...

The fourth season, "Borgen -- The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory", premieres internationally on Netflix on Thursday. Viewers last saw former Danish prime minister Birgitte Nyborg the day after her brand-new political party scored a sensational wi...

"All bodies have now been found," Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn told AFP. Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane shortly after it took off from Pokhara in western Nepal on Sunday morning and headed for ...

Russian forces have taken partial control of the eastern city of Severodonetsk, the Ukrainian official in charge of the Luhansk region in the Donbas said Tuesday. EU leaders agreed on Monday to ban 'more than two thirds' of Russian oil imports into...

The bill must still be passed by Parliament, with the ruling Liberals holding only a minority of seats. "We're introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership," Trudeau told a news conference, joined by dozens of familie...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday a proposed freeze on handgun ownership in Canada that would effectively ban their importation and sale, following recent mass shootings in the United States.

If passed, Silver Lake will take a substantial stake in NZR's commercial rights, introducing an unprecedented outside influence to the sporting body which owns the mighty All Blacks. AFP breaks down details and implications of the investment: - Wh...

Taiwan's defence ministry said late Monday it had scrambled its own aircraft and deployed air defence missile systems to monitor the latest Chinese activity. In recent years, Beijing has begun sending large sorties into Taiwan's defence zone to s...

Now he hopes his love and involvement in jazz -- along with the intervention of musicians drawing public attention to his case -- will help him escape execution for a murderous crime he insists he did not commit. LaMar, who turns 53 on Tuesday, is ...

Yet half a century and two stints in prison later, he is still alive, leading an uneventful existence as Lebanon's first and only political refugee. Now a frail, grey-haired man, Kozo Okamoto is still wanted in his native Japan but remains somethin...

"I can't describe the joy," said the 18-year-old, who bought his first skateboard in 2020 and had only been able to practice on street corners -- until now. "I'm going to come a couple of times a week." The free, open-air facility opened over the w...