German customs officials in Baden-Wuerttemberg have seized a giant elephant foot sent from the UK that had been converted into a tasteless, velvet-covered container before being posted to a customer…
An endangered giant tortoise that was found in a city park after apparently getting lost is receiving some well-needed TLC from rescuers at a wildlife centre in Texas. African spurred…
City officials in Austria are offering financial support for anyone taking up beekeeping in a bid to improve the region’s ecosystem. The council of Villach, in the southern province of…
A court has allowed a six-year-old girl called Alexa to change her name by deed poll after she was mocked mercilessly by her classmates. Alexa from Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany,…
A zoo in Pakistan has enraged animal activists after announcing it aims to auction a dozen of lions to private collectors to make a profit. Lahore Safari Zoo currently owns…
Conservation plant hunters have discovered four new species of mini orchids in a Colombian nature reserve. The discoveries were made in the Cauca valley between the Andes mountains and the…
Archaeologists have revealed how the elite from ancient Mayan civilisations became rubber balls to be used in their games. Studies of grease markings in the walls of a centuries old…
Barcelona has banned smoking on all its beaches in a bid to wipe out fumes and discarded cigarette stubs from its coast. City officials approved the ban last week, which…
A British tourist who cooled his feet in an iconic fountain in central Rome has been fined EUR 500 by local officials. The 42-year-old holidaymaker had used the centuries-old Fontana…
Experts tracking a collection of more than 2,000 ancient Mexican treasures have been helped by five-cent coins and a hotel ashtray stashed with them. Officials from the Mexican National Institute…