Researchers in the UK say cows with names make 3.4 percent more milk in a year than cows that just feel, well, like cows. Just as people respond better to the personal touch, cows also feel happier and more relaxed if they are given personal attention.

A group of Australian scientists have joined forces to try to save the endangered marsupial.Much as 60 percent due to a deadly and disfiguring facial cancer that can kill within months.

University of Adelaide zoologist Dr Jeremy Austin will lead a national project to help save the endangered Tasmanian devil from extinction.

More than 50 men stoned to death a thirteen-year old girl who had been raped.

Scientists are racing to save the axolotl from extinction. The foot-long salamander also known as the Mexican Walking Fish is a key part of Aztec legend & diet, now victim of the draining of its lake habitat, deteriorating water quality & non-native fish.

Monkeys can experience the joy of giving in much the same way as humans do. Tests in capuchin monkeys showed the animals consistently chose to share food with another monkey if given the option, suggesting they are capable of empathy.

LONDON - Christie's auction house has sold John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" for $833,654. The lyrics were written during Lennon's 1969 Bed-in protest for peace at the Queens Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

China, India & other energy-guzzling developing nations on Wednesday rejected key elements of a global warming strategy embraced by President Bush and leaders of wealthy nations. And the U.N's top climate official dismissed the G-8 goals as insignificant.

The Marine Corps on Wednesday said it was expelling one Marine and disciplining another for their roles in a video showing a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff while on patrol in Iraq.

"Mack," the shepherd mix puppy who was found stabbed, beaten, and spray-painted in a North Memphis driveway, was put to sleep Saturday, May 31.