The UK will have the "risks and benefits" of fracking investigated by a team funded by frackers.

The team says it will be "impartial", the way Faux News is "fair and balanced".

Afghanistan's poppy production has hit a record level. Since the government tries to destroy poppies, they are grown mainly in areas controlled by the Taliban.

Rising sea levels due to global heating are affecting gondolas in Venice: they have trouble getting under the old bridges.

By and by, Venice will have to be dammed off from the Adriatic Sea, and water pumped out of the lagoon all the time.

Just about everyone is exposed to phthalates that seep out of plastics, and they have various harmful effects on people.

An Australian MP asked the ICC to investigate Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.