A flare-up of Mexican drug cartel violence left 11 bodies dumped outside the border town of Ojinaga and the seizure of a liger kept as an exotic big cat pet in the backyard of a house, Chihuahua state ...

Why he’s a great pet, in his owner’s words: Liger was raised in a home day care and, as a kitten, often found himself dressed up in doll clothes and pushed around in doll carriages. Too big to be ...

An animal handler with thousands of hours of experience has died after being mauled by a 1,000-pound lion-tiger hybrid he was feeding at an Oklahoma animal sanctuary. Peter Getz, 32, had entered the ...

Kamala Harris accepts her party’s presidential nomination amid rapturous applause at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Also on the programme: the America’s Cup kicks off in Barcelona and ...