Authorities in the Seychelles will erect special anti-shark sea nets around a popular beach where two tourists were killed in separate attacks last month, officials said on Thursday.

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The British teenager killed by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic on Friday was named by the organisers of the expedition as Horatio Chapple, a young man who wanted to become a doctor.

"Having spok

A number of pythons that gathered for an orgy in a boatshed roof of a canoe club in Australia have sparked off a search for a 7m female snake nicknamed ‘Nigini’.

According to the Cairns Post, the si

A female leopard rescued two of her cubs from a forest department cage in Sinnar taluka of the district even as the third one was left injured in the attempt, official sources said today.

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Thousands of visitors flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Friday to catch a first glimpse of a pair of pandas on loan from China, in a welcome respite from the gloom over last month's earthquake and tsunam

Panic gripped Nadauti area in Rajasthan's Karauli district after some six meters high flames leapt from the ground accompanied by a minor blast, officials said today.

After the incident in a farm

India has 1,706 tigers in the wild, marking an increase of 295 in the big cat's numbers, says the tiger census released on Monday. But Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh called the findings a mixed ba

It was a big challenge for forest officials to count tigers in the Sunderbans mangroves, which has reported 70 out of a total of 1,706 tigers in India in the latest census released on Monday.

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Bogota: A pigeon that carried 45 gm of drugs into a prison was found by police Tuesday a few metres away from a jail in the northern Colombian city of Bucaramanga.

The find exposed a drug transport m

Bengaluru: The health ministry's refusal to allow the use of a highly potent mosquito control agent developed by one of its own institutes and granting permission to an imported product, has kicked up