A man who urged his dog to attack and kill badgers kept footage of the brutal fights on his phone, a court heard today.

Two romantic runaways from scout camp try to keep ahead of the all-star posse on their trail

My parents were... My mum was a grafter and my dad very imaginative. I hope I've inherited both those qualities.

A couple had a surprise when they found a tree frog nestling in some asparagus tips they bought in a supermarket.

Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad this morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said.

The size of cages holding beagles awaiting experiments could be reduced under new Government proposals, animal welfare campaigners warned yesterday.

After Penguin Number 337 made a daring bid for freedom from a Tokyo aquarium and vanished into the waters of Tokyo Bay two months ago, many feared the worst for the adventurous feathered fugitive.

Dr Johnson was famously sniffy about dogs walking on their hind legs. So I'm not sure he'd have been entranced by Pudsey, the mop-haired pooch whose owner swept up a £500,000 prize at the weekend. Ashleigh Butler, who's 17, has trained her collie-cross to dance on his hind legs, and their barn-storming performance took them to victory in the final of Britain's Got Talent.

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Britain's Got Talent winner Ashleigh Butler said today she felt “overwhelmed” by support from the public after she and her dog Pudsey triumphed in the live final of the competition.

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It is the conservationist's catch-22: what to do when one endangered species eats another. Research by environmentalists shows that jaguars, themselves at risk of extinction, are increasingly preying on endangered turtle species.

It is the conservationist’s catch-22: what to do when one endangered species starts eating another. That is the problem facing environmentalists whose research shows that jaguars, themselves at risk of extinction, are increasingly preying on endangered turtle species.

Owners would rather spend less on themselves than let their cats go without