Pardon me, pilgrim! This Thanksgiving, how about ditching the dead bird? These beautiful, inquisitive, intelligent birds endure lives of suffering and painful deaths. Here are 10 good reasons to carve out a new tradition by flocking to vegetarian

Beetles take root 20 years after fall of Berlin wall, pelicans return in US, pied kingfishers on kibbutz and Andes ski run melts. The pick of the week's pictures from around the world

So what did defendant William Viehl do? Did he try to kill someone? Burn down the owner's house? Hold him hostage at gunpoint? Poison his water supply? Because you'd think he would have had to do something like that for the judge to insist the fur

The mystery of where Painted Ladies butterflies go in the winter has been solved by the public.

Clark Little, the world's leading surf photographer, specialises in capturing images of the inside of breaking waves

STILWELL, Okla. - Two years after being closed, the tribe's landfill in Adair County reopened for business on Nov. 9 under the direction of a new Cherokee Nation Waste Management board

Within the United States pet owners are under attack. Unscrupulous anti-pet extremists are waging a battle to eliminate pet ownership. They are extremely well funded and have introduced hundreds of legislative bills in dozens of states to severely restri

Animal pictures of the week: 13 November 2009

Brazilian police hold man after spiders found in his suitcases at airport

Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than