A massive fire broke out on Tuesday at a Japanese space agency site while it was testing an Epsilon S rocket, television footage showed. There were no injuries in the incident in the remote Kagoshima prefecture of southern Japan. A large ball of fire and smoke rose from the center …

Dozens of discarded bags float on the canals that run through Minh Khai town, whose narrow streets are littered with large amounts of plastic waste that has escaped from local farms and piled up in ovens where unused waste is recycled. This plastic recycling “artisan village,” an hour from the …