CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic endangered species from poaching. They hoped the drastic action was working, but ...
JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital. The turtle was brought to Loggerhead Marinelife Center in January suffering from predator wounds to the front flipper. The veterinary crew at the Juno Beach facility assisted in Dilly Dally's rehabilitation and care. "Every time we can release a turtle back into the wild is special and not just for us but for all the interns and volunteers and everyone that puts an effort to ...
The history of Chinese immigrants in America has always been about much more than one particular ethnic group. As Michael Luo's "Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America" demonstrates, understanding America's efforts to keep Chinese laborers out, ...
IKITSUKI, Japan (AP) — On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan 's Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God. In a special room about the size of a tatami mat is a scroll painting of a kimono-clad Asian woman. She looks like a Buddhist Bodhisattva holding a ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in "Back to the Future" and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time-traveling back to the 1980s. The guitar, in real life, wasn't as lucky. Filmmakers went ...
BANGKOK (AP) — A hungry wild elephant caused havoc in a grocery store in Thailand on Monday when he strolled in from a nearby national park and helped himself to food on the shelves. Videos of the incident showed the huge male elephant, known as Plai Biang Lek, briefly stopping in front of ...
