Flavours like menthol, bubble gum and cotton candy are masking the harshness of tobacco and nicotine products turning toxic products into youth-friendly bait, the agency says. Flavours not only make it harder to quit but have also been linked to serious lung diseases

Big Ocean, a three-member K-pop group composed entirely of artists with hearing disabilities, is redefining the limits of music and performance — one beat at a time

Al-Nassr sporting director Fernando Hierro said he is hopeful an agreement will be reached to extend Cristiano Ronaldo’s stay at the Saudi Pro League club.

An emotional plea for peace from Aluel Mochnom Wuor stole the show at the Peacekeepers Day ceremony. The 10-year-old student spoke from the heart, on behalf of the people of South Sudan, calling on her country’s leaders and the international community to end conflicts.

The Morocco Fashion Style and Tex show kicked off in Casablanca this week and more than 400 companies from 16 countries are there to show off their latest fabrics and fashions. One major trend this year is sustainability.

Groups alleging enduring multiple abuses from the former Catholic organization Sodalitium Christian Vitae, joined efforts on Thursday asking the church to make public it’s investigation

Eleven Sudanese migrants and a Libyan driver are dead after their vehicle colided with a truck in the Libyan desert early on Friday morning.

Turkey has put forward an offer to host a summit bringing together the presidents of the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine, aiming to help move closer to ending the three-year conflict in Ukraine.

On Friday, China signed a convention to launch a new international mediation body in Hong Kong, aiming to boost the city’s global status and match the influence of the International Court of Justice.

A federal judge in the United States has extended a temporary restraining order on government efforts to bar Harvard university from enrolling international students.

The world’s first humanoid robot boxing competition has really packed a punch—both literally and for the robotics industry. It’s acting as a testing ground where engineers can fine-tune algorithms, boost performance, and explore how these robots could take on more useful roles in the real world.

During the trial, a witness testified that Smith admitted to selling her daughter, along with the two men, for about $1,000 to a traditional healer who sought the child for her body parts.

Habitat loss, climate change and human actions have led to a steep decline in the population of the grey crowned crane. Now efforts are underway to help it survive and thrive.

Rescue operations are ongoing, but access to remote areas remains difficult due to damaged roads and high water levels.

After more than a year and a half of fighting that has devastated much of the Gaza Strip, Israel now says it’s ready to accept a ceasefire proposal put forward by the US government.

Kabila’s return to the spotlight comes as the Congolese Senate recently voted to lift his immunity, paving the way for potential prosecution on charges of treason and war crimes

Angel Di Maria returned to his first club, Rosario Centra,l after two decades in Europe .

Ngũgĩ was often considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was recognized globally, including being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winning the Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award.

While the residents are pleased to be home, they have concerns about insecurity as well as access to basic services

Paris Saint-Germain will play Inter Milan with the game getting underway at 21h Central Africa Time.

This week: The Sahel States Alliance launches a bank to boost regional economy. In Nigeria, tech drives recovery despite falling investments. In Kenya, the textile industry’s future is at risk.

The African Development Bank elected ex-Mauritanian finance minister Sidi Ould Tah as its next president at a vote in the Ivorian capital on Thursday

Ngũgĩ died aged 87 in the United States on Wednesday. One of the famous writer’s neighbours in his hometown in central Kenya remembers Ngũgĩ as a “kind man” who loved Kenya.

Supporters say it is necessary to protect secularism, while opponents have denounced it as discriminatory, Islamophobic, and a violation of the rule of law.

The BET Awards will celebrate its 25th anniversary by honoring four legendary performers — Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx and Kirk Franklin. The ceremony is scheduled for 9 June, taking place in Los Angeles.

n the first four months of the year, over 1,000 micro drama crews finished filming projects in Hengdian – one of China’s premier production centers

A group of protesters gathered in Paris on Wednesday to call for a ceasefire and an end to the war in the Gaza Strip. The activists were part of a variety of organisations, among them Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Médecins du Monde.

The life-saving medical treatment four-year-old Sofia receives in California is not available in Mexico.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history

While his exit was expected, it comes a day after he criticised Trump’s tax and spending bill, the centrepiece of the president’s agenda.

A boat carrying migrants capsized within reach of shore as it arrived at Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday and four women and three girls drowned, authorities said.

Aleppo, a city in northwestern Syria, has long been the country’s economic powerhouse. With countries lifting sanctions on Syria after the end of the brutal civil war, the nation is looking towards rebuilding and reviving Aleppo.

On Wednesday, Carlo Ancelotti, Brazil’s new manager, reunited with striker Vinícius Jr., one of his key players from Real Madrid.

A new report released by the World Meteorological Organisation on Wednesday warns that global annual temperatures are rising, leading to new weather extremes and heat records.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them, died Wednesday at 87.

More than two million people in Gaza are facing overwhelming grief, starvation, and displacement as the war reaches its 600th day, with growing desperation for an end to the conflict.

In a report published on Wednesday, the ECRI said the practice — which sees officials act on ethnic background, skin colour, religion or citizenship rather than objective evidence — persists both in stop-and-search policing and at border controls.

The meeting is attended by 126 delegations from 104 countries that are members of BRICS, SCO, ASEAN, CIS, the League of Arab States, the African Union, the CSTO and other international organizations

Sales of Tesla vehicles in 32 European countries tumbled 49% to 7,261 in April from 14,228 in the same month the previous year, according to the figures released by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA

The reduced stock is a result of aid cuts implemented by US President Donald Trump’s administration.