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Review: Rooming with strangers _ a game of trust
"Do we still have a TV?" That's the text message I got from my husband as I walked up the steps to our Brooklyn apartment on a Friday afternoon this ...
Botswana to ban big game hunting by 2014
Botswana says it will ban hunting by 2014 because of fears that the nation is losing its wildlife. The nation's Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and ...
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 ...
Zebra, mini horse corralled after NYC street jaunt
New York City can be like a zoo sometimes, but a zebra running wild through the streets is not something you ordinarily see. The Staten Island Advance ...
Zippers and "Bo-flakes" deck the White House
"Bo-flakes" featuring the first dog and ornaments fashioned from zippers are among the new twists on traditional favorites at the White House this ...
Rhino killings for horns rapidly rise in S. Africa
By the time ranchers found the rhinoceros calf wandering alone in this idyllic setting of scrub brush and acacia, the nature reserve had become yet ...
Northern CA boy swept to sea still missing
Howard Kuljian and his family were out for a walk on a damp, overcast morning at Big Lagoon state beach on Saturday, playing fetch with their dog Fran ...
GOP blocks bill to give hunters more land access
A wide-ranging bill to give hunters and fishermen more access to public lands stalled in the Senate Monday after Republicans said it spends too much ...
N. California community mourns family swept to sea
Howard Kuljian and his family were out for a walk on a damp, overcast morning at Big Lagoon beach, playing fetch with their dog Fran as 10-foot surf ...
Dog days in Cuba: from shih tzus to schnauzers
The Cuban capital has played host to political summits and art festivals, ballet tributes and international baseball competitions. Now dog lovers are ...
All items in '12 Days of Christmas' now top $107K
Add seven swans, six geese and five golden rings to the list of Christmas gifts that cost more than they did a year ago. And if you get all 364 items ...
Idaho falconers channel history, hunt with raptors
Gary Moon releases "Laser," his young prairie falcon, as the sun's first rays set southern Idaho's desert horizon ablaze. The two-pound female, a tiny ...
Scientists: Galapagos tortoise can be revived
Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists now say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his ...
Official: Man killed zoo monkey during theft try
A 22-year-old man clubbed a monkey to death with a tree branch, after he was bitten by the animal while trying to steal it from a Boise zoo, ...
Prosecutor: Theft was motive in monkey killing
Prosecutors said Wednesday that the man accused of killing a monkey at Boise's zoo hoped to steal the animal before he was bitten and clubbed it to ...
Turkeys: Some people eat them, some feed them
Turkeys: Main course or animal companion? OK, so it isn't even close. According to the industry group National Turkey Federation, more than 46 million ...
Violent dolphin deaths a mystery for scientists
Over the past several months, dolphins have washed ashore along the northern Gulf Coast with bullet wounds, missing jaws and hacked off fins, and ...
Even apes have 'midlife crises,' study finds
Chimpanzees going through a midlife crisis? It sounds like a setup for a joke. But there it is, in the title of a report published Monday in a ...
Fishing nations maintain tuna quotas
Fishing countries on Monday voted to keep up strict limits on catching Atlantic Bluefin tuna, overruling fierce opposition from critics who argue that ...
Review: Lee's 'Life of Pi' is inspiring 3-D art
"Life of Pi" is one of those lyrical, internalized novels that should have no business working on the screen. Quite possibly, it wouldn't have worked ...
Correction: Gulf Rig Fire story
In a story Nov. 17 about an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously described the Bureau of Safety and Environmental ...
Coast Guard searches for 2 after oil platform fire
Two oil workers remained lost at sea Saturday, a day after a torch being used to cut an oil pipe ignited a blaze that severely burned four others ...