Smoking 600

Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest strewn with unexploded ammunition south of Berlin on Friday and a pall of acrid smoke hung over the city.

Almost 600,000 Britons developed cancer over five years as a result of unhealthy habits such as smoking, drinking and spending too much time in the sun, a new analysis reveals.

The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has found that second hand smoke causes 600,000 deaths every year - this is more than 1% of all deaths.

A rare sheet of 10 stamps showing film star Audrey Hepburn smoking has fetched $ 600,000 (430,000 euros) at a charity auction in Berlin.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest strewn with unexploded ammunition south of Berlin on Friday and a pall of acrid smoke hung over the city.

Almost 600,000 Britons developed cancer over five years as a result of unhealthy habits such as smoking, drinking and spending too much time in the sun, a new analysis reveals.

The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has found that second hand smoke causes 600,000 deaths every year - this is more than 1% of all deaths.

A rare sheet of 10 stamps showing film star Audrey Hepburn smoking has fetched $ 600,000 (430,000 euros) at a charity auction in Berlin.