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The move came in the wake of the scandal following Carrie Gracie’s resignation as China editor.
There has been a massive drop in the overall smoking rate in the UK and the EU, but it continues to remain one of the biggest health risks in the region. There were 489,300 estimated hospital admissions attributable to smoking in the UK alone in 2017-18, an increase of 11% since 2007. But there has been a massive drop in the overall smoking rate to 14.4% in 2018 from 19.8% in 2011.
Rosa King died after being savaged at a Cambridge zoo.
Critics, including the former NFL player, pointed out the flag's connection with the era of slavery, as well as its links to white supremacists.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticised the US Customs and Border Protection agency after visiting detention centres along the US-Mexico border. Lawmakers Judy Chu, Rashida Tlaib and Joaquin Castro also visited centres and echoed Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism of the way Central American immigrants are being treated while in detention.
Japan has restarted commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years. It is the first commercial hunt since 1988, after commercial whaling was banned by the International Whaling Commission. It still killed several hundred whales each year through a loophole allowing “scientific” whaling expeditions in the Antarctic Ocean. The catch quota for the end of this year is set at 227 whales.
The court heard Stanley Metcalf, 6, exclaimed: 'You shot me granddad' after the gun went off.
A bag, water and food were discovered on the Kenya Airways flight after it landed from Nairobi at Heathrow.
But the corporation's annual report reveals the change is mostly down to several men taking pay cuts, rather than women being paid more.
Demi Mooney was 12 when she was burned.