LONDON: Social media ranks alongside smoking as a danger to children, senior British doctors said on Tuesday, as they urged lawmakers to tackle the harm that they say excessive screen time is causing to young people.

LONDON - Western Europe faced another day of record-breaking temperatures Tuesday as a heatwave pushed the mercury well above normal levels for May.

The Election Commission (EC) has received a petition seeking the dissolution of the People’s Party over comments made by party leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut about Privy Council members’ attendance at a meeting with a state agency.

The Public Health Ministry on Tuesday began a 21-day mandatory quarantine for all arrivals from Ebola-stricken DR Congo and Uganda, amid rising arrivals from the central african countries and lack of cooperation.

A rescue team racing to save seven people trapped for days in a cave in Laos is getting closer to reaching them, the head of the ​operation said, after breaking through 15 metres of obstacles in a ‌day.