africa/global: WHO names the world's top 10 killers

Bad habits like drinking, smoking and overeating that were once the preserve of the rich are taking an increasing hold in developing nations, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. "While none of these is new, the fact that tobacco, alcohol and cholesterol rank so high in a global survey is a big surprise," Chris Murray, author of the WHO's World Health Report 2002, told Reuters. The report said that in developing countries, 170 million children were malnourished and three million a year were dying as a result. It said HIV/Aids was now the world's fourth- biggest killer, with 40 million people infected worldwide, of whom 70 percent were in Africa.