Police officers in the western German city of Krefeld shot and wounded a suspect, a police spokesman said Thursday.

Berlin Zoo says the panda twins born in August have opened their eyes for the first time, on exactly the schedule you'd ...

Although the Macedonian Grayling is a critically endangered species of butterfly, it is legally available for sale online.

Journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 18 years ago in her Moscow apartment. The German city of ...

An estimated ten trillion insects and spiders live on Earth. And they all reproduce. But how? Now, researchers are studying ...

For decades, the rainforest in Peru has been destroyed by people illegally clearing it for farming and grazing land.

The issue of sexual violence cuts across geographic, economic, and cultural boundaries, a new UNICEF report has found. If ...

Low-cost airline Ryanair is stopping all flights to three minor German airports and also cutting its operations in Hamburg by more than half. It blamed the government in Berlin for high taxes and ...

Every week, political prisoners in Iran go on hunger strike to protest against the death penalty. Rights organizations say that the number of executions in the country has increased by over 20% in the ...

Police in Sweden have arrested an individual after a shooting incident near the offices of an Israeli defense contractor in ...

In some areas, the WWF's Living Planet report noted that wildlife populations had fallen by up to 95%. The Amazon rainforest ...

Naomi Leshongoro and Pauline Leriong are Kenya's first elephant nannies. At the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, the two women take ...