The Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwe’s famed Cecil the lion broke a weeks-long silence in an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune published on Monday.

The US dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe fuelled a global backlash has emerged for an interview in which he disputed some accounts of the hunt.

The US dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe fuelled a global backlash emerged for an interview in which he disputed some accounts of the hunt.

Zimbabwe has charged a man on whose land Cecil the lion was shot by American dentist Walter Palmer in July.

A practice run by a US dentist has reopened weeks after he received fierce criticism for killing a protected lion in Zimbabwe.

This week the story of Cecil the lion is told.

The researcher who studied Cecil the lion for most of his life has said lion-hunting should be banned completely.

I respond to John Fitzgerald’s letter from 6 August regarding his flawed attempt to compare the deliberately illegal and intentional killing of endangered big game in Africa to highly regulated, transparent, and observable hare coursing in rural Ireland.

If ever an animal could be said not to have died in vain, it was poor old Cecil the Lion. His sad death, at the hands of a wealthy hunter, has focused attention on the plight of endangered wildlife.

The trial of a professional hunter who helped an American kill a popular lion named Cecil in an allegedly illegal hunt in Zimbabwe has been postponed to September 28.

A big-game trophy collector from Idaho has ignited a firestorm of criticism from animal-rights activists for flaunting images of herself posing with the carcasses of a giraffe and other wildlife she killed during a recent guided hunt in South Africa.

US airline Delta has had a major change of heart about shipping hunting trophies, announcing that it would no longer accept lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies.

Another American illegally hunted and killed a lion in Zimbabwe several months ago, officials say amid an international outcry over the US hunter accused of illegally killing a well-known lion named Cecil in early July.

Cecil the Lion’s story was given a further twist following conflicting reports that his brother Jericho had been shot dead by poachers in Zimbabwe.

Rocker Ted Nugent has defended a dentist who killed a protected lion in Zimbabwe, as the country seeks his extradition from the US.

Extradition is being sought for the American dentist who killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, the country’s wildlife minister has said.

The law enforcement arm of the US Fish & Wildlife Service is trying to reach the dentist who killed a protected lion while on a guided hunt in Zimbabwe.

The US dentist who killed Cecil the lion wanted to hunt a “very large elephant” after shooting the protected animal, the guide who led the trip has claimed.

Three former Anglo Irish Bank executives will be sentenced later after being found guilty of trying to defraud Revenue; up to 300 new jobs are being created in Tipperary; the US dentist who shot Cecil the lion ’wanted to hunt elephant’; and Patrick Vieira believes Man City’s Irish star Jack Byrne is just as "nuts" as Roy Keane. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

There's been a lot of reaction to the killing of Cecil the lion and the lads from the illustrious police force on the Isles of Scilly have given the best take on it.

Three former executives at Anglo Irish Bank have been found guilty of conspiring to hide accounts; Up to four men have been injured in a stabbing incident at a direct provision centre in Limerick; The Taliban has elected a successor to leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this evening.

Two Zimbabweans arrested for illegally hunting a protected lion named Cecil have appeared in court as anger at the kill by an American dentist escalated.

Everyone from Jimmy Kimmel to Lennox Lewis have been voicing their disgust at the killing of the Zimbabwe lion.

Zimbabwean police are searching for an American who allegedly shot a well-known, protected lion known as Cecil with a crossbow in a killing that has outraged conservationists and others.