Despite hundreds of thousands of voters like you and me who called on members of the House of Representatives to include women's health care in health care reform, the bill that passed late Saturday night includes a ban on private abortion coverage for m

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A woman in South Korea who has tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded - on her 950th time. Having spent more than 5 million won ($4,200) on application fees, Cha Sa-soon, 68,

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With its pelicans, koalas, emus, sea lions, cockatoos and namesake marsupials, Kangaroo Island is Australia's astonishing menagerie

Wildlife officials are looking for anyone with information about the shooting of a bald eagle near Millsfield Loop Road in Millsfield.

The plan to repopulate Panna Tiger Reserve has gone a step further with the successful translocation of a male tiger from Pench. The three-and-a-half-year-old male was taken by road to Panna, a distance of more than 400 km, to join two tigresses shifted

Two men got a nasty surprise as they were driving their van - when a massive white snake slithered across their windscreen. The 4-foot-long albino reptile emerged from the bonnet of James Denton and Morne Aspeling's van as they drove back to their office.

Dereck and Beverly Joubert, who have spent 25 years documenting Africa's most iconic animals, have teamed with National Geographic on the Big Cats Initiative in an attempt to stop their extinction

Turtles and birds and snakes. (Oh, my.) What was the rarest of them all? An albino skunk. Those were just some of the exotic animals turned in today during the nonnative pet amnesty day held at Busch Gardens.