Stub it out: China’s Jilin puts smokers to a 90-day test
The province-wide contest has drawn an enthusiastic response as the country works to bring down smoking rates that remain particularly high among men.
The province-wide contest has drawn an enthusiastic response as the country works to bring down smoking rates that remain particularly high among men.
From Grand Theft Auto 6 to Barbie Rewind, these 15 video games are leading a packed field this fall.
The original lead cast of cult Brit teen comedy series “The Inbetweeners” are officially back for the upcoming reunion movie at Netflix, which the streamer has confirmed is now in production. First reported last month, the new film has now been given the title “Inbetweeners 3,”
Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will reprise their roles in the new film from creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, starting production on Monday.
Lamalera’s traditional whale hunt in eastern Indonesia remains one of the world’s most dangerous forms of subsistence hunting.
On August 5, two years to the day after a mass uprising drove Sheikh Hasina from power, she announced from India that she would return to Bangladesh in December. Read as a forecast, the statement is implausible. Read as a signal, it is easy to decode. To a scattered and
SEOUL, Sept 7 - South Korea and the United States have agreed on the size of Seoul's planned investment in a gas project in Texas at around $22.3 billion, Korean media outlet Edaily reported on Monday, citing unidentified officials and politicians.
"You Can See Everything" is about the furthest thing from a "pure" documentary you’ve ever seen. That’s part of its appeal — it’s a one-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus. Yet it’s been made with a spirit of genuine inquiry, driven by Fielder’s acidly
BEIRUT, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town early on Monday killed at least 11 people including two children and two medics, Lebanon's state news agency said. Israel has intensified its bombardment of south Lebanon in recent days despite a June
By Yasnime Ghania and Hatem Maher DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Iran said it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf in the coming days, along with maps of a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, as a weekend exchange of strikes on shipping sent oil prices
NEW DELHI, Sept 7 - Indian activists spearheading calls for food labelling said a government proposal to have red warnings only when two concerning nutrients are high created an \"industry-friendly loophole\" disregarding public health, marking the first formal court objection
Finance ministry data showed that Japan's official foreign reserves stand at $1.207 trillion, down from July's figure of $1.287 trillion.
The country singer performed a series of nu-metal covers at the Iowa music festival on Saturday
MOSCOW, Sept 7 - North Korea and Russia opened their first road bridge on Monday, Russia's TASS state news agency reported, a structure which spans the Tumen river and which both sides cast as an important milestone in their strategic partnership.
[UN News] As criminal networks increasingly exploit weak institutions and operate across borders, the UN says no police force can tackle them alone.
Dear Mark, it is always a pleasure to welcome you. We meet today to discuss Russia's attack in Leipzig. The German government has identified Russia as behind an attempt to attack cargo planes at Leipzig/Halle Airport. Had this attack succeeded, this would have resulted in
A fabricated report has used Euronews' visual likeness to falsely claim a Ukrainian soldier killed three NATO servicemen during a military exercise in Latvia.
Giant dahlia floats roll through Zundert in the Netherlands as crowds watch the annual Flower Parade, built by volunteers over several months.
Hungary's Gábor Reisz, winner of the 2023 best film award in Venice's Horizons section for 'Explanation for Everything,' returns to the Lido in the Venice Spotlight program with a quixotic tale and dark humor.
Lebanon says renewed attacks jeopardise a US-brokered ceasefire meant to end the conflict between Israel and armed group Hezbollah.
The filmmaker and actor won Guest Actor in a Comedy Series during the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony on Sunday night
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called on nuclear-armed states to engage in negotiations and accelerate efforts to bring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) into force, reaffirming Kazakhstan’s commitment to the global anti-nuclear movement, Qazinform
The 79-year-old actress has been vocal with her support for Palestine amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza and shared that her activism carries professional consequences. Her comments follow several artists coming to the defence of actor Mark Ruffalo, who has also been the victim
[New Times] The United Nations General Assembly will on Friday, September 4, vote on an African-led initiative calling for wider use of world maps that represent the size of continents particularly Africa more accurately.
Good morning, readers. Angela Skujins here holding the pen for this week’s newsletter, where a seismic regional election in Germany’s east has seen the far-right, anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) sweep to power, with the blow ricocheting as far as Berlin.
[This Day] The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the weekend adopted a resolution promoting the wider use of equal-area world maps, including the Equal Earth projection, in a move aimed at addressing long-standing distortions in the representation of Africa and other
[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- THE United Nations decision to promote world maps that more accurately portray the size of continents could trigger a rethink of how geography is taught and understood in Tanzania.
[Vanguard] ABUJA-- Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, has welcomed a United Nations resolution encouraging the use of world maps that more accurately represent Africa's size, but cautioned that a corrected map alone cannot drive the
[This Day] The Mercator Projection did not only distort geography, it distorted ambitions, argues CHETA NWANZE
[New Times] The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Friday September 4, calling for world maps that more accurately represent the true size of continents, particularly Africa.
[Vanguard] Nigeria has joined 163 other countries to endorse an African-led UN resolution seeking fairer world maps that accurately reflect Africa's true geographical size.
Shibuya's large residential population has become increasingly exasperated with tourists who fail to properly dispose of rubbish, smoke where they're not supposed to, and make too much noise.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The United States was the lone country to reject an African-led campaign to change how the world is depicted on maps, as 164 countries backed a United Nations resolution promoting more geographically accurate projections.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed a resolution supporting the transition from the centuries-old Mercator projection to more accurate equal-area world maps, including the 2018 Equal Earth projection.
She matched the country's best-ever Miss World result, previously achieved by Lina Teoh in 1998.
The self-professed “story of a theatrical revolution and how it shaped a nation,” Freddie Fox’s documentary “Into the Breach” attempts to chronicle the impact that British theater has exerted on art, culture and politics over the last century. Assembling a roundtable of acting
Rescue efforts have increasingly focused on 12 hydropower projects, where about 900 workers are missing and roughly 500 are believed to be trapped in various tunnels, authorities said.
The enforcement drive began in the western state of Maharashtra, where inspections of food establishments have found infestations of rats and cockroaches, peeling paint, improper food storage and expired products.
Omar al-Bayoumi has always denied being an extremist and a Saudi spy.
NEW DELHI, Sept 7 - At least six people were killed and several others injured after a building housing students in India's capital Delhi, collapsed, the city-state's chief minister said on Monday, as rescuers searched for anyone still trapped in the debris.
A large number of items that were part of the campaign appeared for resale on an online marketplace.
Alternative for Germany's landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt has drawn celebration from Europe's populist right and sharp condemnation from Poland's prime minister.
MEPs from The Left group in the European Parliament had a face to face meeting with EU Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jørgensen ahead of the unveiling of the Commission's Affordable Housing Act, expected next Wednesday (9 September). Left MEPs said they had “made it
Paris-based The Party Film Sales, attached to Oscar-nominated “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner “Congo Boy,” has inked multiple deals on the French documentary “Tax Me (If You Can),” helmed by Thomas Lafarge (“The World According to Amazon,” “In the
The film, co-directed by Lance Oppenheim, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival
With a bigger capital cushion, financial institutions may also be asked to do more to mobilize resources in capital markets, analysts say.