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Boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc (Reuters)

03-10-2008 15:10

Reuters - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

Uganda wildlife park gets new gorilla family (AFP)

03-10-2008 10:22

A silverback male mountain gorilla is pictured in the dense jungle canopy of Uganda's Bwindi National Park in 2007. The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has told AFP that a new family of mountain gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species, is ready for interaction with tourists.(AFP/File/Stuart Price)AFP - A new family of mountain gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species, is ready for interaction with tourists, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) told AFP Friday.

WWF bemoans attempts to water down EU's green targets (AFP)

03-10-2008 09:50

The desiccated bed of the river Po in Borettoa, Italy in 2007. The environmental group WWF said that Europe's plan of action to tackle climate change is being undermined by pressure from industry and may no longer achieve its original green goals.(AFP/File/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - Europe's plan of action to tackle climate change is being undermined by pressure from industry and may no longer achieve its original green goals, the environmental group WWF said Friday.

Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health (AP)

03-10-2008 06:31

Two three-month-old male baby lesser pandas play at Chiba Zoological Park near Tokyo Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. The lesser pandas, also known as red pandas, debuted in the public Saturday. Their names will be chosen from eight names by park visitors. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas.

Aussie boy breaks into zoo, feeds animals to croc (AP)

03-10-2008 01:51

AP - A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday.

Hungarian foie gras: caught between ethics and gourmandise (AFP)

03-10-2008 00:22

Hungarian farmer Laszlo Piti force-feeds a goose for the foie gras production in Ujkigyos village nearby the Hungarian-Romanian(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)AFP - Whether geese enjoy being force-fed is hardly the question: the future of Hungarian foie gras production now depends on whether customers' sensitivities or gourmet tastes will prevail in the war over animal rights.

Australian boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc (Reuters)

02-10-2008 21:22

Reuters - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

NTSB: Remains found at Steve Fossett wreckage site (AP)

02-10-2008 18:54

In this Feb. 28, 2005 photo, pilot Steve Fossett walks across a windy runway to the GlobalFlyer at the Salina Municipal Airport in Salina, Kan. Authorities in rugged eastern California say a hiker has found items possibly belonging to Fossett who disappeared Sept. 3, 2007, after taking off in a single-engine plane borrowed from a Nevada ranch owned by hotel magnate Barron Hilton. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)AP - Federal investigators say they have found body parts amid the wreckage of a missing adventurer's airplane in the mountains of eastern California.

Searchers find Fossett's plane but not his body (AP)

02-10-2008 17:16

Wreckage from a plane belonging to Steve Fossett is seen Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008  in a handout photo released by the Mono County Sheriff's Search & Rescue.   Searchers found the wreckage of Fossett's plane in California's rugged Sierra Nevada just over a year after the millionaire adventurer vanished on a solo flight, and the craft appears to have hit the mountainside head-on, authorities said Thursday. Crews conducting an aerial search late Wednesday spotted what turned out to be the wreckage in the Inyo National Forest near the town of Mammoth Lakes. (AP Photo/Mono County Sheriff's Search & Rescue)AP - More than a year after millionaire adventure Steve Fossett vanished on a solo flight over California's rugged Sierra Nevada, searchers found the wreckage of his plane but no body inside, and said his remains were probably devoured by wild animals.

Catastrophe Killed Dinosaur Herd, New Species Emerges (LiveScience.com)

02-10-2008 11:41

LiveScience.com - A catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago left a herd of giant, horned dinosaurs buried to become fossils. Now scientists have identified the extinct creatures as a new species.

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