Animal protection officials in the US are investigating after a turtle was attached to helium balloons and launched into the air.

When he died 100 years ago today, the Irish writer had not received due recognition for creating our favourite vampire, says Robert Hume

Pink has slammed Selena Gomez for painting a horse fuchsia for her latest video.

A retired professor and his wife whose mutilated bodies were found along a rural Georgia road were apparently killed in an attack by nearly a dozen dogs, authorities said.

A PET Burmese python measuring more than 8ft long broke out of a terrarium and strangled a two-year-old girl in her bedroom at a central Florida home, authorities said.

A 12ft pet Burmese python broke out of an aquarium and strangled a two-year-old girl in her bedroom, police in Florida said.

IT was a tale of two BOs — Barack Obama, President of America, and Bo, the newest addition to his family, a loveable curly-haired pooch.

IN recent weeks Canada has once again brought shame upon itself.

Ellen DeGeneres has been praised by The Humane Society for her dedication to promoting key animal rights issues.

A US cattle industry spokesman said nearly all meat bound for American dinner tables were treated humanely, despite a secret video showing workers at a slaughterhouse abusing sick or crippled animals.

An Australian judge today banned the company that conducts Japan’s whale hunt from killing the animals in a large part of its regular hunting grounds off Antarctica.

AN investigation by an animal advocacy group in the US has found coats — some with designer labels such as Tommy Hilfiger — made from dog’s fur.

IRELAND is prepared to ban the import and use of cat and dog fur in line with EU proposals, Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan said. The fur, often cruelly stripped from live animals, is being used in clothing and ornaments, sometimes disguised as fake fur or simply not labelled at all.

CAT and dog fur, often cruelly stripped from live animals, is being used in clothing and ornaments — often disguised as fake fur or simply not labelled at all.

Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan has thrown his support behind an animal rights group that is campaigning for China to find alternatives to the mass slaughter of dogs to control rabies outbreaks.

Ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s is under fire from an animal welfare group for buying eggs from a company the Humane Society of the US says mistreats chickens.

THE final leg of Canada’s contentious seal hunt moved to the ice floes off north-eastern Newfoundland and Labrador yesterday, with sealers expected to slaughter a further 234,000 harp seal pups in one day.

Animal-rights activists said their vehicle carrying foreign journalists was run off the road today as they were making their way to their helicopter to document the country’s contentious seal hunt.

The funeral of singer Gene Pitney is to be held tomorrow in his US home town, it emerged today.

Nine dead dogs – four of them decapitated – have been discovered by shocked residents in a semi-rural community near Detroit.

The opening days of Canada’s East Coast seal hunt were fraught with frustration, bad tempers and violent acts on the rapidly thinning ice of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean today, the first day of Canada’s contentious seal hunt, which animal rights activist claim is barbaric and not economically worth the bad publicity.

A day before Canada’s contentious seal hunt begins on the frozen ice floes off the Gulf of St Lawrence, Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather, made another plea to stop it.

Law enforcement agents raided an illegal cockfight and arrested 144 people attending what one official said may have been one of the largest such gatherings in the US.

A new form of hunting which allows participants to shoot wild boar and antelope by a simple click of the mouse is stirring up great controversy in the United States.

THOUSANDS of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.

Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.

Prosecutors filed drug and weapons charges against US rapper DMX, a day after he was arrested for allegedly impersonating a federal agent and harassing another man in an airport car park.

Rapper and actor DMX was arrested on charges that he and another man tried to steal a car in a parking lot at John F Kennedy Airport in New York, authorities said.

Canada is all set to launch the largest single seal hunt in half a century today, with the government allowing more than 300,000 seals to be killed – many of them in a 36 hour mass cull.

Keiko, the killer whale star of the Free Willy films has died, it was announced today.

American rapper DMX was arrested today for swearing during a concert in St Kitts and Nevis, police said.

If the American leaders are correct, more terrorist strikes against America are inevitable. What happens then?

Start with the legend of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland. Then give it a Texas twist.

A Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus star is on trial in California for elephant abuse.