Los Angeles Department of Transportation has been forced to scrap a video campaign begging passengers not to poop on city buses. Officials pulled the six clips from YouTube and its website, claiming ...

In 1532, in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a group of Europeans took the Inca ruler Atahualpa hostage, setting the stage for the fall of the Inca Empire.

The complaints are piling up. A putrid sidewalk so blanketed with poop that it’s barely passable has become a symbol of the Big Apple’s winter crap crisis — as complaints over dog waste reach record ...

Shweta Taneja has always been drawn to the things that exist on the fringes of a society. “The dark spaces that people shove under the carpet or put into the closet have always attracted me,” explains ...

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The city is currently a dog-shit nightmare. There’s no other way to say it. Dog owners seem to have taken January’s snowstorm as carte blanche to violate an already tenuous social contract: They have ...

As melting snow reveals weeks’ worth of uncollected dog waste, frustration at the state of the sidewalks has boiled over. As melting snow reveals weeks’ worth of uncollected dog waste, frustration at ...

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A revolting reality has emerged as the snow from January’s storm melts away: New York City's dog owners don’t scoop their pets' poop from the sidewalks. Sidewalks throughout the five boroughs resemble ...

For most people, talking about poop is uncomfortable, but if you live with ulcerative colitis (UC), a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), it’s unavoidable — and it’s a crucial part of disease ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have such a minor question that I do not think you would want to publish it, but I've been curious for about 20 years. I am a healthy 77-year-old male without health issues. When I ...

One person’s waste could be another’s shot at fighting cancer. The idea may sound far-fetched, but it is gaining momentum in cancer care. Researchers are testing faecal microbiota transplants as a way ...