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Police making a drug-related raid at an apartment in southeast Spain encountered a pack of starving dogs in unsightly conditions, as well as an injured dog that had apparently been thrown to the other animals to be eaten as food. Police in El Ejido said they arrested the unit’s dweller, a 23-year-old man only identified […]

One of three dogs that had been beaten and thrown into a river in a sack in Spain has survived after being found by two cyclists and rescued by an animal protection group. Spanish Civil Guard officer examines the bag at the scene. (Newsflash) The three dogs, all Spanish sighthounds, or greyhounds, (Galgo Espanol), were […]

Police and soldiers chased a piglet after it escaped from a nearby zoo through a public area in the city of Culiacan in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa. Video released on Facebook by Culican’s Public Security and Municipal Traffic units showed them chasing the piglet as it ran around the room, sneaking between chairs […]

The political fortunes of a top Republican in Ohio came crashing down Tuesday. House Speaker Larry Householder was arrested for his alleged role in a $60 million bribery case. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, urged Householder to resign. “Because of the nature of these charges, it will be impossible for Speaker Householder to effectively […]

A red panda cub, whose sex has not been released, was born at the Beekse Bergen safari park in Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands. The park displays about 1,250 animals from over 150 species, varying from small mammals to large birds. The International Union for Conservation of Nature categorizes the red panda as “endangered,” mainly because its […]

A woman in the Chinese city of Baise got her head stuck between the slats in a fence after she fell sideways off her scooter on July 15. She was attempting to take a shortcut on a side street and found herself on an unfamiliar road. The woman accidentally fell sideways off her scooter while […]

A cane-wielding man attacked several New York police officers taking part in a march last week, but one of the officers injured left the hospital three days later to applause from his fellow officers. The bloody attack on officers including chief of department Terence Monahan at the “Power of Prayer” march in New York on […]

Two hackers helped Chinese intelligence steal secret information from “hundreds” of businesses, according to U.S. Attorney William Hyslop. The hackers allegedly targeted drug makers, manufacturers and defense contractors, starting in 2009, the indictment said, as well as dissidents, preachers and human rights activists in the U.S., China, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Hundreds of millions of […]

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” Australian lawmaker Irina Dunn once said, giving the women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem a catch-phrase so clever that leaving it out of any feminist treatise in the 1970s made a writer seem naïve. Fifty years later, fish and bicycles needn’t make cameos in manifestos […]

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has ruled the lower chamber of the state legislature for 35 years. Now, thanks to a federal investigation, his power may be coming to an end. Elected officials on both sides of the aisle have called on the Illinois speaker to step down if the accusations are found to be […]

Lounging on the sofa and eating chips while watching TV may well be a favorite pastime during the current pandemic. Even from an altitude of 6,500 feet. That’s what “couch potato” paraglider Hasan Kaval did earlier this month as he reclined on a red sofa in his “living room,” with a lamp, a bag of […]

Darth Vader is the crustacean they were looking for. Scientists from Singapore and Indonesia confirmed a species they found in Indonesian waters off the coast of western Java in 2018 had never previously been identified. Initially dubbed “Darth Vader” after the “Star Wars” movie villain, such large isopods are often called “sea cockroaches” because of […]