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Federal health officials are unveiling Friday a $54 million national media campaign to get smokers to quit and prevent anyone else, especially children, from starting.

Mike Nesbitt is to formally launch his bid for the UUP leadership later.

A man who survived the April 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech says not enough is being done to keep guns out of the hands of people like the shooter even as jury found the university failed to warn students earlier that a gunman was on campus.

The long-delayed free trade agreement between South Korea and the US is in effect, amid protests in Seoul.

UK newspapers split over Cameron's US visit

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un commanded live-fire drills involving all three branches of the military, state media reported Thursday, as he bolsters his credentials as commander in chief....

Eight children who survived a coach crash in Switzerland fly home after some of the 28 victims' families visit the scene.

BEIJING (AP) -- The Communist Party replaced one of China's most powerful and charismatic politicians Thursday following a weeks-long scandal unleashed when one of his trusted aides, a mob-fighting former police chief, fled to a U.S. consulate....

BEIJING (AP) -- The Communist Party replaced one of China's most powerful and charismatic politicians Thursday following a weeks-long scandal unleashed when one of his trusted aides, a mob-fighting former police chief, fled to a U.S. consulate....

Pakistani politician Imran Khan says he will not participate in a conference in India because author Sir Salman Rushdie is due to speak there.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven't budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven't budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven't budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign....

David Cameron and Barack Obama discussed the possibility of releasing emergency oil reserves in an effort to dampen soaring prices, the BBC learns.

A man and a woman are charged with manslaughter after the death of a two-year-old boy in a Derbyshire hospital.

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have exchanged toasts at a state dinner in Washington in Mr Cameron's honour

SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 students and six adults and instantly changing a joyous skiing vacation into a tragedy spanning several European nations....

SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 students and six adults and instantly changing a joyous skiing vacation into a tragedy spanning several European nations....

The government launches a 12-week consultation on allowing gay couples in England and Wales to marry.

Same-sex partners give their views on gay marriage