Hunting ban faces two-year delay
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MPs are to vote on banning hunting with dogs within days - but any ban will be deferred by two years.
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A protestor is taken away by police outside the House of Parliament in London Sept. 15, 2004. More than 10,000 British pro-hunting protestors held a major rally outside the house of Parliament on Wednesday as lawmakers debated on a ban on fox hunting.
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A judge on Wednesday postponed until next year the second capital murder trial of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad.
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Big game hunters can return to Africa to shoot the black rhino after a 20-year worldwide ban on trade in the animals was lifted yesterday.
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A ban on US citizens owning military-style assault weapons is about to lapse, 10 years after it was passed.
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The Bush administration violated federal law by missing deadlines to produce a study on the impact of global warming, now as much as two years overdue, a federal judge ruled.
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Fox-hunting supporters are preparing a five-year campaign on three battlefronts to overturn the ban on the sport imposed last week by the House of Commons.
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Doctors said that the man who caused an international health scare would still require as much as two years of treatment.
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CAPE TOWN -- South Africa's environment minister announced long-awaited restrictions on hunting yesterday, declaring he was sickened by wealthy tourists shooting tame lions from the back of a truck and felling rhinos with a bow and arrow.
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Fox-hunting in England and Wales faced extinction as a defiant House of Commons prepared to invoke special powers to ram through a ban on the controversial blood sport.
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The outcome of the legal challenge to the hunting ban is expected as judges give their ruling on its legitimacy.
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The Waterloo Cup hare coursing event is brought forward eight days to escape the government's hunting ban.
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Three hundred fox hunts begin as the government decides whether to push through an outright ban on hunting in England and Wales.
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A 10-year-old hunting ban and the ongoing insurgency have brought about a boom in the populations of animals including leopards and bears in Indian Kashmir, wildlife officials say.
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The Bush administration said Wednesday it will put off until after the election a final decision on a plan to allow road building and logging on 58 million acres of remote forests where both are now prohibited.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: In Britain, the pro-hunting lobby is not giving up without a fight, after the Government forced a bill through Parliament that bans fox hunting.
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With help from the NRA, nearly 50 senators are pushing to end a two-decade old rule forbidding people from openly carrying firearms in most national parks