The puppy mill and dog trade gone out of control

BBC news Sydney. Article by Phil Mercer. Steeplechase and hurdle racing in the Australian state of Victoria will be abolished in 2010, prompted by the deaths of 20 horses in two years.

Australian authorities were preparing Thursday to round up with helicopters a 6,000-strong herd of wild camels terrorising a remote Outback community and shoot them dead in the desert.

For many years, paleobiological researchers interested in the history of biodiversity have focused on charting the many ups (evolutionary radiations) and downs (mass extinctions) that punctuate the history of life.

The World Health Organisation said Thursday that it is investigating reports of mutations in the swine flu virus, after half-a-dozen countries recorded cases in which the virus was transforming.

Before GWB left office, Kaptur visited TreasSec Paulson with list of all the people in her district whose homes'd been foreclosed. Each page had 4 columns of names, full list when unfurled still stretched all way down TreasuryBuild to the street below..

Poachers "wiped out" the entire elephant herd in Sierra Leone's only wildlife park, wildlife managers said Thursday after police said they had arrested a gang of 10 poachers.

The outbreak of the H1N1 virus has received ample coverage in the news lately, with stories about a shortage of the vaccine reaching the public and causing significant concerns about personal health and safety, as well as the safety of children.

In a discovery that may solve the mystery behind the source of moon's water, an evidence from NASA's LCROSS mission suggested that much of it was delivered by comets that slammed into the Earth's satellite billions of years ago.

New evidence has made it more likely that remnants of Martian microbes were transported to Earth in a meteorite.