PARIS, France, Thursday June 18, 2015 – The Caribbean doesn’t have anything to shout about in this year’s Skytrax World Airline Awards, but neither do North, South and Central America and much of Europe. Instead, 18.9 million passengers in 110 countries looked east to cast their...
[caption id="attachment_6122" align="alignleft" width="300"] Some 48.5 percent of nearly 346,000 deaths attributed to one of the 12 types of cancer known to be caused by smoking were due to cigarette use, according to the study (AFP Photo/Nicolas Asfouri)[/caption] Washington (AFP) - Smoking is responsible for nearly...
[caption id="attachment_6119" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chocolate moulds seen at the Absolute Chocolate factory in Kenya's capital Nairobi March 20, 2015. -- PHOTO: REUTERS[/caption] PARIS (AFP) - New research has added to tentative evidence that eating chocolate in modest quantities may be good for the heart, its investigators...
ALEXANDRIA, United States (AFP) — A tech-savvy US teenager who was prolific on Twitter pleaded guilty yesterday to using social media to aid the Islamic State group, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, who sent more than 7,000...
FLORIDA, United States (AFP) – Deaths from using synthetic marijuana, or spice, have tripled so far this year and the number of emergency calls to US poison centers have soared, officials said Thursday. From January until May, 15 people were reported dead from synthetic cannabinoid use,...