Wild boar scatters French Christmas shoppers: police
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It was no bull in a china shop, but a wild boar rampaged through a clothes shop in western France on Saturday before being felled by bullets, police said.
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French customs officers have seized a set of Christmas Santa Claus decorations made of cocaine.
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Police have revealed they were investigating the dumping of a pig's head outside a mosque on the first full day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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A Frenchman lost his wife and three children. British honeymooners disappeared. Vacation getaways for Christmas, far from Europe&#39;s cold climate, turned into nightmares.
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Suspects in a plot to attack the Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg were accused in court Thursday of having links to Islamic networks in Britain, Italy and Spain.
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A plan by a group of French students to save a few euros on entry fees to an animal park by hiding one of their number in the boot of their car triggered a full-scale police alert this week after witnesses thought they were seeing a kidnapping.
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A French police union is taking the respected Le Petit Robert dictionary to court for including a reference to police as &quot;bloody pigs&quot; in its latest edition, a spokesman said Friday.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - All over one suburban subdivision, wild pigs have left their mark.  There was a dead cat. Ruth Strahosky's lawn was shredded when she was on vacation.
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A pack of wild boars fleeing from a group of hunters went on a two-hour rampage through a small southern German village, biting people and causing thousands of euros in damages to shops, cars and property.
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Hunters have shot dead the last female brown bear native to the Pyrenees, condemning the species to extinction and causing an &quot;environmental catastrophe&quot; for France, the government said.
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CLARKSDALE, Miss. - When Dorothy Marie goes for a stroll, a few blocks can take a toll. Dorothy Marie is a 300-pound potbellied pig. On Christmas Eve, the Betty Streett family left their pet pig at home while they went away for the holiday.
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German police called to investigate unusual noises in the garden of a Bremen house late on Monday were surprised to find that a pair of amorous hedgehogs were to blame.
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French police arrested four men in southern France after a search of their vehicle revealed a statue of Father Christmas made of pure cocaine.
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BERLIN - Three teenagers may be on the hook for a hefty fine if a court decides that their festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm scared the libido right out of an ostrich named Gustav.
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LONDON: Police are investigating whether a serial hammer killer is targeting women in London after a French woman was bludgeoned to death in circumstances similar to other attacks.
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Police said they were linking the murder of French student Amelie Delagrange, found beaten to death in a London park last month, with other killings attributed to a serial killer.
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Around 200 French police swooped  on a Paris suburb on Monday and arrested 12 people after an  attack on two policemen renewed fears of rising crime and  sparked a row between France's judges and interior minister.