Knut the polar bear becomes museum display
Adorable in life, still attracting admirers in death: Knut the polar bear's hide has been mounted on a polyurethane body and is going on display in ...
Gays in Belarus face reprisals for activism
Police in Belarus are going after gays, raiding their clubs and locking up clubbers overnight, and summoning gay activists for questioning.
Syria official warns of trafficking in antiquities
A Syrian government official warned Wednesday of rampant trafficking in antiquities from his country and appealed for U.N. help in halting the illicit ...
Dogs cross species barrier, help cheetahs survive
It may sound like a doomed love story, but some dogs love big cats. Cheetahs are the fastest mammals in the world, but they also are the world's ...
Bookies offer odds on who will be next pope
Bookmakers have been quick to offer odds on candidates to replace Pope Benedict XVI, with cardinals from Ghana, Nigeria and Canada among the early ...
37 dead in stampede at Hindu festival in India
Anxious relatives searched for missing family members in northern India on Monday during one of the world's largest religious gatherings, unsure if ...
36 dead in stampede at Hindu festival in India
Anxious relatives were searching for missing family members Monday in a northern India city that is home to one of the world's largest religious ...
Bacon enthusiasts converge in US for festival
Thousands converged Saturday on the world's largest bacon showcase, a festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. Some people wore Viking ...
As Carnival fever seizes Rio, some seek escape
As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's streets for Carnival's ...
London 'Micrarium' aims to showcase tiny animals
They're minuscule, there are millions of them, and one museum manager says they're massively under-represented. Jack Ashby, who is in charge of the ...
Sweden suspends wolf hunt after protests
Sweden has suspended a controversial wolf cull after a legal challenge by animal rights activists. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency had ...
Snowboarder suffocates in deep snow in Austria
Austria's state broadcaster says a snowboarder suffocated after landing head-first in deep snow. Broadcaster ORF cites police as saying the ...
Berlusconi brother slammed for soccer player slur
Last week it was Silvio Berlusconi who got into hot water for praising Benito Mussolini. This week it's the former premier's younger brother who has ...
Prized Bosnian cultural relic won't show in NYC
Officials in charge of Bosnia's national monuments said Wednesday they rejected an offer by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to exhibit one of ...
Montpellier will not appeal player bans for bets
Montpellier will not appeal the French handball league's decision to suspend two of its players for six matches for their involvement in an illegal ...
British Museum puts art from the Ice Age on show
The art world loves hype. Works are touted as the biggest, the rarest, the most expensive. Even in an age of superlatives, the British Museum has ...
Supersonic skydiver reached 844 mph in record jump
Supersonic Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought during his record-setting jump last October from 24 miles (38 ...
Inventor of Etch A Sketch dies in France at 86
Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France, the toy's ...
International literary festival opens in Myanmar
The latest first for fast-reforming Myanmar — its first international literary festival — is putting the spotlight on dozens of the country's authors, ...
Roadside bomb kills 2 polio workers in NW Pakistan
A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani polio workers on their way to vaccinate children in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border on ...
Iran Zoroastrians celebrate ancient feast of fire
Followers of Iran's minority Zoroastrian religion gathered after sunset to mark Sadeh — an ancient mid-winter feast dating to Iran's pre-Islamic past ...
Policeman protecting Pakistani polio team killed
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer protecting polio workers during a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern ...
Holocaust items put on display for remembrance day
When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next ...
Harry's Afghan downtime: movies, candy trades
Prince Harry's off-duty time in Afghanistan appeared to be full of war movies, board games and elaborate candy trades. The 28-year-old helicopter ...
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