Menthol Cigarettes May Be Banned in US

There are reports that US authorities plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. Professor Robert West is director of tobacco studies at University College London, and tells us why the Food and Drug Administration has concerns about the product.

A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died. We hear from the BBC's Dave Lee.

Stan Lee, the man who is seen as the father of the modern comic book and invented Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Spider Man and a hundred other characters, has died. The characters are the base of multiple multi-million dollars film franchises and we talk to Jeremy Conrad who runs the The Marvel Comic Universe website.

Indian Railways recently launched the world's largest recruitment drive, and our reporter went to meet some of the job hunters. Our regular workplace commentator Pilita Clarke considers how best to deal with a scenario where a temporary replacement for you at work turns out to do the job better than you.

Plus we get a markets update from Peter Jankovskis at Oakbrook Investments in Chicago

(Picture: Menthol cigarettes. Picture credit: Getty Images.)