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Electronic cigarettes pose a threat to adolescents and should not be sold to minors, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says, in a long-awaited report that calls for strict regulation of the devices. In the 13-page report, which will be debated by member states at a meeting in October in Moscow, the United Nations health agency also voiced concern at the concentration of the $3 billion market in the hands of transnational tobacco companies. The WHO declared war on “Big Tobacco” a decade ago, clinching the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the world’s first public health treaty that has been ratified by 179 states since entering into tobacco in 2005. Marching in unions makes men feel powerful Synchronised movement such as military parades makes men feel more powerful and intimidates opponents, a new study suggests. The findings are published today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Social animals such as humans have had to evolve ways of quickly deciding whether to fight or run when confronted by an opponent, says anthropologist, Professor Daniel Fessler, of the University of California, Los Angles. Fighting when you have a good chance of losing, and negotiating when that’s the most successful approach is likely to improve your chance of survival. While two lizards might just decide on the basis of individual size, other more complex animals use a range of factors to form a mind’s eye image of the threat posed by their opponents, says Fessler and Colleague Colin Holbrook. Lake Argyle in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley suggested for future second capital There has long been talk of the need more densely populate Australia’s north, and Lake Argyle, on the border of Western Australia and the North Territory, has been earmarked by an architecture company as the ideal location. Apart from centers like Cairns and Darwin, much of the top end remains empty, with the isolation and climate proving a difficult sell. Lake Argyle in the East Kimberley, near Kununurra, is currently home to 20,000 crocodiles and less than a dozen people. The enormous waterway, created by damming of the Ord River in the 1960s, has been identified as the perfect site for a second hypothetical national capital. Landscape architecture company Ecoscape said a new northern capital on the shores of Lake Argyle could sustain a population of 150,000 people. The plans include an