An international charity has removed 15 animals from a Gaza Strip zoo, freeing them from what it called “the worst zoo in the world” and hoping to grant them a better life abroad.

According to press reports, two traumatised lions have been moved from Gaza to a new home in Jordan. Let me apologise in advance for dwelling on the plight of animals when more than 1,200 people, including hundreds of innocent children, were killed in the 50-day onslaught on that beleaguered enclave.

WILL the EU add to the suffering of one of its peripheral member states sentenced to decades of financial austerity, by closing down its poultry industry?

Berlin Zoo’s abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but an animal rights activist insisted today he would have been better off dead than raised by humans.

BRUNO the wandering brown bear, who became a celebrity because of his exploits across the Alps, has been shot and killed.