Infographic of the Day: Chasing the News Across the Globe

News Globe, by the BBC, offerings an intriguing way to see where the news is happening.

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The BBC has just unveiled News Globe, a web app for browsing the news by geography.

When you open up the app, you can search by topic--for example, "climate change"--and all the stories about that subject pop-up in the geographic spots where they happened.* Mousing over gives you a summary of the article, and clicking again takes you to the full story.

It's kinda fun to play with: You can spin the globe...