Artificial sweeteners, used to replace sugar in a vast range of products, do not help in losing weight and can have serious health effects, according to the World Health Organization.. Sanders said he thought the advice would "likely cause a lot of confusion in the public health arena", particularly in the UK, where a tax on sugar has led to drink manufacturers replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners.
The world must halve single-use plastics and slash throwaway consumption to stem the tide of environmental pollution, according to a UN report on Tuesday that warns the next few years are critical. . "The next three to five years present a critical window for action to set the world on the path towards implementing the systems change scenario by 2040," it warned.
Ukraine said on Tuesday it had downed an entire barrage of Russian drones and missiles overnight -- including six advanced Kinzhal missiles -- hours ahead of a visit from a special envoy dispatched by China.. Beijing's special envoy, high-ranking diplomat Li Hui, is expected to arrive in Kyiv for a two-day visit, as part of a European tour to promote Beijing-led peace negotiations on the war in Ukraine.
Aged 16, Halim Flowers was arrested in the United States, tried as an adult then jailed for murder.. Flowers was only released in 2019 after a change in US law allowed for under-18s who had been tried as adults to be "re-sentenced".
The US Central Intelligence Agency bolstered efforts to convince Russians to leak their country's secrets on Monday, posting an emotional video on Telegram aimed at people frustrated with the situation under President Vladimir Putin.. It suggests that people can take action to make things better -- providing information to the US intelligence agency -- and still be patriotic Russians.
The Cannes Film Festival was set for a stormy start on Tuesday, with Johnny Depp making his comeback in the opening film, showing off his French skills as King Louis XV. The 59-year-old's career has nosedived in Hollywood, despite his victory in a defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard last year that featured bitter domestic violence allegations.. But Depp has been gradually returning to work and will hit the red carpet for the opening night in Cannes with French period drama "Jeanne du Barry" about the 18th-century monarch who fell in love with a prostitute.
From the sun-dappled, tree-lined village of Joseph, Debbie Price can see the distant snowy peaks of the Seven Devils, a series of mountains in the Rockies that mark Oregon's border with Idaho.. A radical solution has been brewing: to move the Idaho-Oregon border to the west and create a "Greater Idaho" encompassing half of present-day Oregon.
At least six people have been killed in a fire that tore through a four-storey hostel in the early hours of Tuesday in New Zealand's capital.. The New Zealand leader said many shift workers were staying in the hostel, making it difficult to know how many people were in the building at the time of the fire.
President Joe Biden will reconvene crunch debt talks Tuesday with senior Republican leaders including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in another attempt to avert a costly US default.. President Biden has rebuffed many of these proposals, accusing Republicans of "holding the economy hostage" to further their political objectives.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has assumed an aura of invincibility after a surprisingly strong performance in Turkey's election put him on course to extend his record as the country's longest-serving leader.. Erdogan, 69, had already overcome jail, mass protests and a bloody 2016 coup attempt to emerge as Turkey's most important leader in generations, but this year's election seemed one hurdle too many even for him.
