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Large shark kills man in New Zealand; beach closed
A shark possibly 14 feet (4 meters) long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to ...
EU ministers back phased-in ban on fish discards
Officials from the 27 European Union countries proposed Wednesday a phased-in ban on the discarding of unwanted fish by fishing vessels, but ...
South Africa: Buffalo and donkey in beef products
Worried about horse meat in your beef? Try water buffalo, donkey and goat. South African food scientists said they have found all three in mislabeled ...
Undeclared horse meat found in Slovakia
Authorities in Slovakia say they have discovered horse meat in a food product labeled as beef. Horse meat has turned up across Europe in frozen ...
Ikea withdraws meatballs in more than 20 countries
Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe's widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid ...
Horse meat found in Danish pizzas
Danish authorities say they will report a butcher in central Denmark to police for selling horse meat labeled as beef to local pizzerias. The Danish ...
Ireland: Plant sent horse labeled 'beef' to Czechs
An Irish slaughterhouse has been caught labeling horse meat as beef and shipping it to a company in the Czech Republic, Ireland's government said ...
Russia seeks EU guarantees over horse meat scandal
Russia may suspend meat imports from European Union nations because of the horse meat scandal, an official said Thursday. Gennady Onishchenko, ...
Undeclared horse meat found in Czech Republic
The Czech Republic became the latest country to detect horse meat in food products labeled as beef in a widening European food labeling scandal, ...
Nestle finds horse meat in beef pasta meals
The world's biggest food and drinks maker Nestle SA has become the latest company to pull some of its products off European shelves after they were ...
Germany: Tighter controls needed on meat products
German officials on Monday vowed tighter controls on meat products and stronger penalties for companies that violate food-labeling rules as more items ...
Runners and riders in Europe's horsemeat scandal
The European Union agreed Friday to begin random DNA checks on meat products in a bid to put a lid on a spreading scandal over horsemeat, while ...
DreamWorks partners on Russian theme parks
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. says it is licensing its characters to a developer of theme parks in Russia. The Regions Group of Companies plans to ...
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 ...
Horsemeat: French company blamed, UK arrests
The price, smell and color should have been clear tipoffs something was wrong with shipments of horsemeat that were fraudulently labeled as beef, ...
Study: Fish in drug-tainted water suffer reaction
What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social ...
England's image drive hit by Gatland comments
Eighteen months on and the England rugby team is still being haunted by a scandal-ridden 2011 World Cup campaign dogged by dwarf-throwing, ...
Guppies use ugly friends to seem more attractive
When it comes to mating, guppies treasure their ugly friends - because they look so good by comparison. An article published Wednesday by Britain'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 ...
Pianist's music fails to put tortoises in the mood
No wonder they're endangered. Galapagos tortoises at London's zoo lumbered around impassively as famous French pianist Richard Clayderman serenaded ...
Kony's LRA killing fewer civilians, group finds
Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, the shadowy group of militants that has terrorized Central Africa for years, killed far fewer civilians in 2012 ...
EU parliament pushes fish reform in landmark vote
The European Union parliament on Wednesday pushed for a drastic reform of fishing policy in a landmark vote seeking to end decades of overfishing that ...
Iranian space official: Photo shows wrong monkey
One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and ...