Bear kills person in Romania
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A brown bear kills one person and wounds several in the Transylvanian forests of Romania.
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The apparently accidental death of a bear   in the Pyrenees has reopened a bitter row between mountain   farmers and environmentalists over whether bears should ever   have been reintroduced to the region.
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A bear fatally mauled a man Friday in a town near the Carpathian Mountains, authorities said.
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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters early last week.
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An 11-year-old boy was dragged screaming from his family's tent and killed by a black bear during a Father's Day outing in the Utah wilderness.
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A male panda at the Beijing Zoo once bitten by a drunk tourist attacked a teenager, ripping chunks out of the boy's legs, officials and a newspaper said Tuesday
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Two people in southeastern Romania are being treated in hospital for anthrax, an animal disease which can be transmitted to humans, health officials said on Monday.
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Grizzly and black bears killed a majority of elk calves in northern Yellowstone National Park for the second year in a row, preliminary study results show.
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A strong earthquake shook Romania and neighbouring regions late on Wednesday, a Turkish television report said. There was no information on any damage or injuries.
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The mother of a 17-year-old boy killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo said the attack has forever ruined Christmas for her, while police are investigating whether someone helped the tiger escape. The area of the zoo in which the Siberian tiger killed Carlos Sousa has been deemed a crime scene.
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THE might of the French State was deployed yesterday to find and save a bear cub after hunters killed its mother, the last native she-bear in the Pyrenees.
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The grandfather of a baby girl who was mauled to death by two dogs is injured and his partner killed in a separate attack.
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Gemina, a giraffe with a distinctive crooked neck and one of the most beloved animals at the Santa Barbara Zoo, has died. She was 21. The zoo euthanized the animal on Wednesday, it was announced Thursday.
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Politics: 7 January 2005, Friday. A 27-year old Bulgaria has been seriously wounded in a shootout in the capital city of the Czech Republic, Prague.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Police cornered a rather unusual suspect in Knoxville's entertainment district early Tuesday - a 130-pound black bear.
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HELEN, Ga. - A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear. But the encounter last weekend proved fatal for the bear.
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Hunters and wildlife officers in Utah killed a black bear Monday believed to be responsible for a fatal attack on an 11-year-old boy on a family camping trip.  The boy was sleeping in one corner of a tent when family members heard him scream around 11 p.m.