Monkeys attack 7 people in east Indonesian village
A mob of wild monkeys has gone on a rampage in a village in eastern Indonesia, entering houses and attacking residents. Seven people were injured, ...
Timbuktu, ancient seat of Islamic learning
Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years ...
Uzbekistan creates agency to combat termite plague
Uzbekistan has set up a government anti-termite agency to combat the insects' damage to the Central Asian nation. The news agency Interfax on Monday ...
More than 140 nations adopt treaty to cut mercury
A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted Saturday by more than 140 nations, capping four ...
US Navy: Ship stuck in Philippines used faulty map
An inaccurate map that mislocated a marine sanctuary may have caused a U.S. Navy minesweeper to run aground on a coral reef in the Philippines this ...
Indian park battles poachers targeting rhino horn
Out of the early morning mists and tall grass of northeast India emerges a massive creature with a dinosaur-like face, having survived millions of ...
France's Bardot threatens exile over elephants
Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the ...
Critics say grounding shows Arctic drilling danger
The grounding of a petroleum drilling ship on a remote Alaska island has refueled the debate over oil exploration in the U.S. Arctic Ocean, where ...
Israel orders Bedouins to leave West Bank area
The Israeli military on Wednesday ordered dozens of Palestinian Bedouins to leave their communities so it could conduct military exercises in a remote ...
Pony back with circus after Christmas kidnap
A tiny pony is back at its Austrian circus home more than a week after apparently being kidnapped by a woman who wanted to give her sick daughter a ...
Chilean street dogs are protesters' best friends
They don't have demands, but they're loyal to the cause and are always on the front lines of the fight. They run with protesters, lap up shots from ...
EU foresees 'healthy' level of fishing ahead
European Union fisheries said Thursday they are moving toward more efficient and sustainable fishing that should see the stocks of threatened species ...
EU committee backs reforms to salvage fish stocks
The European Union on Tuesday took a significant step towards protecting its threatened fish stocks when a parliamentary committee backed a series of ...
EU says more need to use science to cut fish quota
The European Union's executive Commission is calling for a new approach to protect dwindling fishery stocks and eliminate a system of setting catch ...
Circus claims vodka saves elephants in Siberia
Circus trainers claim two of their elephants were saved from the deadly Siberian cold by vodka. Emergency ministry spokesman Alexander Davydov said ...
Rescuers abandon efforts to save beached whale
Rescuers called off attempts Thursday to save a humpback whale that beached itself on a sand bank off the northern Dutch coast, saying the animal is ...
Stranded humpback whale struggles to free itself
Rescuers say a humpback whale has stranded on a sandbank near the northern Dutch coast and is trying to free itself as the tide rises. Henriette de ...
Elephant dung coffee: An exotic brew at $50 a pop
In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is helping to excrete some of the world's most expensive coffee. Trumpeted as earthy ...
The 'royal molecatcher' outlives Versailles king
The king is dead, but the molecatcher lives on. He even signs SMS messages: "Molecatcher to the king." It's been over two centuries since Louis XVI ...
Pope greets clowns, acrobats: Circus comes to town
Pope Benedict XVI greeted thousands of clowns, acrobats, puppeteers and even a pair of lion cubs on Saturday as the circus came to town for an unusual ...
Russian children find lion cub, take it to school
Most primary school classes get a goldfish to keep, a hamster or a turtle if they're lucky — but children from one village in southern Russia got to ...
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