On Tuesday, the first flight for the husband-and-wife team's Pet Airways, the first-ever all-pet airline, took off from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, N.Y.

THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism.

The black and white dog has now learned seven signs for sit, lie down, stay, dance, paw, kiss and 'good girl'.A deaf dalmatian which was trapped in a world of its own has been given a new lease of life after learning sign language.

"The best tribute we can pay to our ancestors, whatever your religion may be, is to generate clean energy for new generations. That is our leitmotif," said Esteve Serret, director Conste-Live Energy...

"She likes to pet them and see how they're doing and if they're crying she gives them a finger to pacify on like you would a baby. "Or she gives them a bottle to feed them on."

The latest EU figures show 10,451 primates - our closest living relatives - were used in the EU in 2005 for research, drug development and safety testing. Around 3125 primates were used in the UK...

Miza, feared dead as her mother was among the gorillas killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, home to 380 of the world's 720 mountain gorillas.Miza was rescued by her father, silverback gorilla Kabirizi, and brought back ...

UK scientists are required by law to consider non-animal approaches when designing new experiments. Animal experiments in pain research use animals while they are conscious or while under anaesthesia. New and highly sophisticated brain-imaging works best!

As well as being unethical, animal models of pain are simplistic and fail to replicate the multi-dimensional experience of human pain with its complex genetic, biological and psychological aspects.

<p>A dog that sniffed out survivors from under the rubble of New York's World Trade Center after the 2001 terror strikes is to be cloned, the California-based firm conducting the procedure said...</p>