As Arizona fire raged, homeowner raced to save her 50 pigeons
PRESCOTT, Ariz. - It wasn't the recollection of the "wall of fire," the blaze sweeping through the scrubby terrain, that caused Cindy Carrillo to take off her glasses and wipe away tears. It was...
View ArticleEstranged father charged with defacing Constable's The Hay Wain at the...
A man will appear in court today, accused of gluing a picture of his son to a famous Constable painting at the National Gallery. The Metropolitan Police charged Paul Douglas Manning, 57, with criminal...
View ArticleHate speech: Court directs MNS chief Raj Thackeray to appear before it
June 24: A Delhi court has asked Maharahstra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray to appear before it on July 26 in connection with a complaint about his alleged hate speeches against Bihar natives,...
View ArticlePigeon chosen for breeding after flying from Japan to Canada
A lost racing pigeon that flew across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Canada will be bred by a bird lover there in the hope of producing a line of long-distance...
View ArticlePeaceful passenger pigeon waits for resurrection
(Image: Marc Schlossman/Panos) PASSENGER pigeons once formed flocks so vast that they would darken the sky for days as they flew past. In the 19th century there were some 5 billion individual birds in...
View ArticleFacing jail: professional beggar who fleeced the public but lived in...
Simon Wright is facing jail after he was spotted begging in Leicester Square a month after magistrates handed him an Asbo banning him from begging in the capital. The 37-year-old professional beggar...
View ArticleFacing jail: professional beggar who fleeced the public but lived in...
Simon Wright is facing jail after he was spotted begging in Leicester Square, weeks after magistrates handed him an Asbo banning him from begging in the capital. The 37-year-old provoked outrage last...
View ArticleScientists look to revive the long-extinct passenger pigeon
It is often said that the passenger pigeon, once among the most abundant birds in North America, traveled in flocks so enormous that they darkened the skies for hours as they passed. The idea that the...
View ArticleVerdict in case Amar Singh on July 17
KANPUR: The chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) on Saturday reserved order in a case of cheating and SC/ST Act against MP and national president of RashtriyaLokmanchAmar Singh and MP Jaya Prada and...
View Article£50,000-a-year beggar Simon Wright facing jail 'after breaching ASBO by being...
Street wardens discovered...
View Article£50,000-a-year beggar banned from streets of London facing jail after...
Street wardens discovered...
View ArticleTrapped pigeons rescued by three emergency vehicles
Three trapped pigeons were rescued by two fire engines, a police car and the RSPCA on a Durham high-street. Three trapped pigeons were rescued by two fire engines, a police car and the RSPCA on a...
View ArticlePassenger pigeons may come back from the dead
By Jackson Landers, Special to The Washington Post Posted: 07/09/2013 06:24:49 PM PDT Updated: 07/09/2013 06:24:59 PM PDT Taking a page from â œJurassic Park," scientists might be able to patch...
View ArticleDewani’s mental health ‘has improved’
London - Honeymoon murder accused Shrien Dewani's mental health has improved and he has talked about returning to South Africa to fight a murder charge, a London court heard on Monday. The British...
View ArticleCong MP Nirupam moves HC against summons in defamation case
New Delhi: Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court order summoning him in a criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP MP Smriti Irani for allegedly...
View ArticleMI5 spy cleared of assaulting ex-girlfriend
Man accused of violent campaign to win back fellow spy argued that her complaints were retribution of a woman scorned The MI5 headquarters in central London. Photograph: Reuters An MI5 spy has been...
View ArticleHit-run driver fined, faces sentencing over car theft
The driver who killed mother-of-two Linda Cox in a hit-run outside the Canberra Hospital, has been committed for sentence to the ACT Supreme Court over the theft of another car only weeks before the...
View ArticleForgery case: Deputy chief whip first Mizoram MLA to be jailed
AIZAWL: The deputy chief whip of the ruling Congress in Mizoram Assembly became first legislator in the state to be jailed following his surrender in a forgery case on Thursday. R L Pianmawia spent a...
View ArticleCouncil criticised after taking farmer to court over loud chickens
A council has been criticised by a magistrate after taking a farmer to court for failing to stop his chickens from crowing too loudly. Anthony Block with one of his cockerels Photo: EAST NEWS By Josie...
View ArticleJapanese racing pigeon takes wrong turn ... ends 4,000 miles away in Canada
What a bird brain! A pinheaded pigeon racing in Japan took a wrong turn — and ended up 4,000 miles away in Canada. RELATED: JOKESTERS DON PIGEON HEADS FOR GOOGLE STREET VIEW The 1-year-old was due to...
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