The homeless man who accompanied US singer Miley Cyrus to the MTV Video Music Awards has a warrant out for his arrest in Oregon.

Philip Morris USA, the largest US cigarette maker, is cutting prices of its four biggest brands, including Marlboro, to keep customers from switching to lower-price cigarettes sold by discount manufacturers.

British American Tobacco and RJ Reynolds Tobacco have agreed to merge their US tobacco businesses, uniting the nation’s second and third largest tobacco companies in an effort to blunt the attacks of sagging sales and cheaper brands.

A judge in San Diego has fined RJ Reynolds Co more than €20 million for violating the terms of a US tobacco agreement by running magazine adverts aimed at teenagers.

Susannah Martin, hanged in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, can finally rest in peace.