The World Health Organization (WHO) called for stiff regulation of electronic cigarettes as well as bans on indoor use, advertising and sales to minors, in the latest bid to control the booming new market.
What's your star sign?
People born between July 23 and August 22 are Leos.
Leo (the Latin word for Lion) is the fifth of the 12 signs of the zodiac. Leo is one of the 88 modern constellations, and one of the most easily recognisable constellations in the night sky because of its many bright stars and distinctive shape that is reminiscent of the crouching lion it depicts.
'When Robots take all the work, what'll be left for us to do?' is the title of this interesting article published in the equally interesting 'Wired.'
Read through a few select parts of this article, and find out what the words in bold mean:
Here's an article from 'The Guardian' about the rise in the popularity of 'tiger selfies', and the harm this social activity is causing...
An animal protection charity is _1_ tourists to turn down opportunities to take photos of themselves with wild animals, as a growing number of such images, including “tiger selfies”, surface online.
If you are learning a second language, then you must be really familiar with the ups and downs, the highs and the lows, the challenges and the joys... of the journey to proficiency!
Take a look at this fantastic Buzzfeed article, which covers the 10 stages of learning English as a second language. It also features EC English! :)
We hope you'll enjoy reading it... We will be sharing more interesting articles for you to read in the near future!
Friends, music, food and fun… these are the main ingredients of a good party! Today we're going to 'celebrate' a few of the different types of parties you can enjoy.
Housewarming Party: When you move into a new house or apartment, you throw a housewarming party to celebrate your new home and show it to your friends.
With neither team _1_ in the first 90 minutes, the match went into _2_ time and Mario Gotze scored a winning goal for his country just 7 minutes before the end of the match.
The Argentinian team seemed devastated after losing the game, with Lionel Messi looking _3_ as he collected his medal.
Many commented that Messi was not at his _4_ during this match, and missed many opportunities to score.
The year can be separated into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn (fall in American English) and winter. Which is your favourite season of the year?
It's easy to have a good time in the summer when the sun is out. We can spend more time outside and the warm weather puts everyone in a good mood. From barbeques to hiking in the mountains, summer provides more opportunity to do fun stuff.
Lego is "letting kids down" by putting sales above the environment because of its _1_with Shell, say Greenpeace, the environmental organisation.
The charity is launching a global _2_ to get Lego, the children's toy manufacturer, to drop the oil giant, Shell.
More than 16 million Shell-branded LEGO sets have been sold or given away at petrol stations in 26 countries. Greenpeace believe Shell is using Lego to _3_ its image.
Starbucks, which is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 23,187 stores in 64 countries, is offering its workers _1_ college degrees.
Any of the company's135,000 employees who work at least 20 hours per week will soon be able to _2_ college at Arizona State University (ASU) Online. Starbucks employees can choose among 40 online courses, _3_ from retail management to electrical engineering.
