A story of three bears, without Goldilocks, is in the news in Canada. It began last month when a female black bear began breaking into a mobile home in Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, to steal meat and fish from a freezer.

Animal cruelty officials in Canada have launched an investigation after a video emerged online the week of a man jumping on and riding a wild moose.

THE news from Syria is so dreadful, you must forgive me for mentioning something trivial; reports this week say only one bald ibis has returned to Palmyra, the site of the country’s only breeding colony.