BOLIVIA: With a vast crowd waiting and a temporary altar, Pope Francis needed a place to change before saying Mass in Bolivia — and the closest place was a Burger King.

USA: A group of self-styled Robin Hoods have been feeding parking meters while trailing traffic wardens.

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ENGLAND: Britain is trying to make sure its citizens are more nice than naughty while soaking up the Arabian Gulf sun this Christmas.

NO FLY ZOO-NE

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, if you were in Edinburgh Zoo in late July it was very unlikely to be the second one – because air traffic control put a no-fly zone in place to help the animals to get it on.

China announced the extremely rare birth of panda triplets in a further success for the country’s artificial breeding programme.

USA: The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles says a boy who dresses as a girl may not have his driver’s licence photo retaken wearing makeup.

MAN ‘SUFFOCATED BY HIS UNDERWEAR’

The female giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo is showing encouraging signs she may be pregnant, according to keepers.

The female giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo may be pregnant, according to keepers.

Plans are underway for a €6m expansion at Fota Wildlife Park which could see rare giant pandas become a top visitor attraction at the park.

Two giant pandas at Britain's Edinburgh Zoo have failed to mate.

Britain’s only pandas have run out of time to mate as their limited breeding season drew to a close.

Both giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo have been taken off display as they recover from illness.

Two giant pandas went on public display in Edinburgh Zoo for the first time today since their arrival from China.

AN eagerly-anticipated pair of giant pandas has arrived in Edinburgh on a charter flight from China, becoming the first of the endangered animals to live in Britain for 17 years.

The first pair of giant pandas to live in the UK for almost 20 years have arrived in Scotland.

CALL it panda politics.

WHEN a baby elephant, rhino or giraffe is born in Dublin Zoo there’s a huge response from the media.

Chimpanzees may not talk like humans, but they understand the language of lunch.

A penguin is set to get one of Norway's most prestigious military honours.