Laughter is no joke in one region of Japan, where citizens have been ordered by law to giggle at least once a day for the sake of their health. The ordinance, passed last Friday in the northern ...

Social media users were appalled and furious at ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Friday for referring to the 94 mentally ill patients who died earlier in the year after they were moved from ...

JEREMY Corbyn cannot simply avoid questions over his contact with a Czechoslovakian communist spy and “laugh off” accusations made against him, a former M16 chief has warned. It is “absurd” for Mr ...

People often say that laughter is the best medicine - so it makes sense that science plays a part in why we find some things universally funny. From slapstick to stand-up, we all have our own sense of ...

Women should not laugh in public in Turkey, the Deputy Prime Minister has said in a speech on “moral corruption” in the country. Bülent Arınç used a meeting for Eid al-Fitr on Monday to condemn ...