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, ...

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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

86 camels die in fire in Germany
Police say a fire has destroyed a camel farm in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany, killing 86 animals and causing up to €2 million (US$ ...

Cyprus jobless turn to illegal songbird trapping
It's just before first light and the bird-catcher strings nets among the orange, pomegranate, fig and carob trees in his orchard. The sound of ...
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 ...

Zoo count begins: No creature too small to count
In a sea of flapping black and white flippers, Ricky is hard to miss: He's got spiky yellow feathers, a flamboyant character, and he's the only ...

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 ...