The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...

Now, a local newspaper has caught the bug, too. The "Shinano Mainichi Shimbun" dates back almost 150 years. The company has a 70 percent share of Nagano's newspaper market, but sales are falling.

In many parts of Africa, urbanization is occurring at a dizzying pace - so fast that key infrastructure isn’t keeping up. A chronic lack of incinerators means trash is often dumped in the open.