A contentious law that grants extensive powers to police to collect biometric data from people in India who have been convicted, arrested or detained has come up for sharp criticism.
A team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest dinosaur skeleton to ever be found in Africa. The find could be a piece in the jigsaw of how the oldest dinosaurs became established before spreading worldwide.
The world's heaviest parrot was at risk of dying out completely, but thanks to the work of Maori tribe members and conservationists the kakapo population has now reached its highest number in over 40 years.
A majority of the DNA that has been sequenced for research comes from donors of European ancestry. That causes a knowledge gap about the genome of people from the rest of the world.
Large quantities of cyanide solution have spilled into the Karasu River in Turkey after a pipe carrying cyanide exploded in a gold mine. But experts say the mine has always caused heavy environmental damage.