Two zookeepers have been arrested for animal mistreatment and 15 giraffes have been seized by the authorities after three escaped from a filthy facility and died mysteriously during the night.…
A watch and a ring seized by the Nazis from a resistance fighter who died in a concentration camp have been returned to his family. Josep Verges was a Catalan…
Colombian Police have discovered over 20,000 coconuts filled with liquid cocaine in a port that were set to be shipped to Europe a few hours later. The 504 canvas bags…
German customs officers have seized a protected tortoise skeleton along with its shell that was shipped from Switzerland to Germany as a home decoration. The officials at the Donauwoerth Customs…
Turkish police have carried out their largest ever ancient artefact bust in the capital Ankara, seizing 16,398 coins and 399 other historical items dating back to the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk…
Experts studying these mysterious 500-year-old shrunken heads from the Amazon that were seized from a smuggler during a raid in Turkey revealed they all had their lips sewn shut to…
The boss of a museum in Italy dedicated to the Mafia organisation 'Ndrangheta has been given a nine-month suspended sentence for aggravated fraud. The sentence was handed down by a…
German airport Customs have seized half a tonne of rotting African primate, porcupine and antelope 'bushmeat' infested with mold and maggots and hidden between clothes and medicine in packages from…
Sixteen ancient artefacts have been seized by the authorities at an Egyptian port during a foiled smuggling operation. The artefacts, which are from different time periods, were seized by security…
Russian cops have confiscated two eagles listed in the Red Book is endangered from a man who was offering tourists the chance to take pictures with the illegally kept birds…