There’s few streets in this part of Kenya, so the bookmobile comes via a camel. This ingenious library is boxed and strapped to a camel.

Jewellery appraisers, sign language interpreters and disabled children caregivers have become new occupations in China as classified by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

Delicate hand-stitched lace from Koniakow, a mountaintop village, has long graced the altars of Polish churches and tables of Polish homes. But now tradition has taken a modern twist with thongs, G-strings and other racy undergarments – offending some villagers but giving new life to a 200-year-old cottage industry.

On any given day, 45 million adult smokers light up despite the known dangers of smoking cigarettes. Americans typically view smoking as an individual choice that needs to be respected just like the myriad of other harmful behaviors society tolerates. Nevertheless, there is strong societal pressure to curb the sale and use of cancer-causing tobacco [...]

eMarketer estimates that net US ad revenues at Yahoo!, AOL, MSN and Google represented 57.4% of the total Internet ad spend in 2006.

As yet another sign that we have too many cops.  New figures reveal that thousands of taxpayers’ money has been spent on paying for parking fines after meter maids issue citations for marked police cars.

A Chinese appeals court has upheld a ban on a company from selling land on the moon, ruling that "celestial bodies" could not be anyone’s property, state media said on Saturday.

The study, by the government’s waste body Wrap, will say households dump just under a third of all the food they buy, although half is inedible waste.