In Pic :Neil Hamer feeds a four-year-old bear named Wimpy in 2012. The Ontario Court of Appeal has just ruled against him, upholding a by-law passed to prohibit feeding bears. Soon after the coming thaw, as she has done for years, a great black mother bear known as Belles will leave her den in the woods of northern Muskoka and saunter down to Neil Hamer’s general store, looking for her […]

After the 1991 fall of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam made Ethiopia more amenable to visitors, hardy tourists started to make their way to the remote town of Lalibela, perched in Ethiopia’s Lasta mountains at 2,600m. The town is home to 11 medieval rock-cut churches so revered, Unesco included them on the original World Heritage list in 1978 – a list of then only 12 sites, which now has grown to […]

  STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: “Treasure pulled out of the sea” Fisherman Jwdat Abu Ghrb says he discovered the statue off Gaza The statue appeared on eBay with a starting price of $500,000, authorities say When Jwdat Abu Ghrb spotted a dark shape last summer in the waters off Gaza, where he was diving for fish, he initially thought it was a corpse. “I was afraid,” he told CNN. “I put […]

More than a third of the world’s cocoa is grown in Ivory Coast, West Africa. STORY HIGHLIGHTS CNN’s Freedom Project returned to Africa’s cocoa plantations to look for progress in fight against child labor Ivory Coast produces more than one third of all the world’s cocoa, but many farmers live in poverty The cocoa industry supports about six million people in the West African nation Growers’ position at the bottom […]

KARACHI, Pakistan – A bomb attack killed at least 11 police officers and wounded 42 others in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on Thursday, police said. A van exploded after hitting a bus the officers boarded moments after it had left a training school in what appeared to be a suicide attack, said police officer Rao Anwaar. Nearly 50 officers on board the bus came from a special commando force, […]

A tiger from the Corbett Tiger Reserve in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand is shown in a file photo. Forest officials said another tiger who strayed from the park killed its 10th human victim in six weeks on Sunday. (Corbett Tiger Reserve/Associated Press). A tiger prowling near villages in northern India killed its 10th person in six weeks, a day after eluding a trap set by hunters with a […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Prince William says a global alliance is being created to combat the illegal wildlife trade United for Wildlife brings together his foundation and the world’s leading wildlife charities Increasing numbers of elephants, rhinos and tigers are being poached for the trade A global conference is being held Thursday in London to address the issue Britain’s Prince William called for global action Wednesday to stop the illegal wildlife trade […]

  Gold medalist, Dara Howell, left, and bronze medalist, Kim Lamarre, both of Canada, celebrate their wins in the Ladies Ski Slopestyle final at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 MEDALS as of Tuesday, 11th February 9:06 ET   Rank Country Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal Total 1   4 3 2 9 2   4 2 4 10 3   3 2 […]

Warning: Video is graphic. A Copenhagen Zoo is dealing with intense backlash after it killed a healthy, two-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions on Sunday. The zoo maintains it took appropriate actions to prevent inbreeding. The Lions in Copenhagen Zoo eat the remains of a perfectly healthy young giraffe named Marius was shot dead at Copenhagen zoo on Febuary 9, 2014 despite an online petition to save it […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS  Copenhagen Zoo official: If we sterilized giraffe, he’d just take up needed space Giraffe’s autopsy performed outside in front of people at Copenhagen Zoo Zoo says giraffe killed because of a duty to avoid inbreeding Giraffe’s carcass was fed to zoo’s carnivores An online petition to save a healthy young giraffe from death has failed, despite thousands of signatures from animal lovers. Copenhagen Zoo said it euthanized the […]