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At a Massachusetts lab, pebble-sized pellets are transformed into forks and films that won't leave microplastics in the environment. These are bioplastic pellets.

Pamela Anderson's cookbook "I Love You" started as a box of recipe cards for her sons. She says she doesn't have a strong sweet tooth but enjoys desserts for their social aspect.

Count Binface, a comic candidate known for wearing a garbage can on his head, is making waves in a British special election.

Taiwan's top economic representative in Japan says he boycotted this year's memorial marking Nagasaki's 81st anniversary of atomic bombing.

The flood crisis in India's northeastern Assam state remains critical, with the death toll reaching 100 after two more people died overnight.

The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record. British driver Andy Green set the land speed record for a diesel-powered car 20 years ago at Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats.

South Korean and U.S. militaries say they will begin their annual large exercises next week to beef up readiness against North Korean threats.

Authorities in Russia's Tatarstan region say a Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Nizhnekamsk killed 12 people and wounded 39 others.

Tropical Storm Dolphin is dumping heavy rain in eastern China. It has caused flooding in places after making landfall as a typhoon the previous day.

The trial of a man accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur starts this week. The unsolved case has gripped the hip-hop world for 30 years.