Instead of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, the sounds emanating from the University of Otago’s historic Marama Hall will be replaced with less cultured buzzing, banging — and possibly bellowing.

Members of the police commercial vehicle safety unit were conducting spot checks on buses used for ferrying cruise ship passengers between Port Chalmers and Dunedin. Senior Sergeant Hugh Tait said...

Smelly, thunderous, lingering or silent, Australians are being asked to log their farts for science.