Tech Fired for Killing Camel at Airport
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ANKARA, Turkey - A group of Turkish aviation technicians were so happy to be rid of the last of a batch of troublesome planes that they sacrificed a camel on the tarmac of Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport.
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Tusker, a towering 50-year-old bull elephant who had become a favorite for safari camp visitors, was shot dead after New Year's party-goers provoked the animal into trampling several cars, conservationists said Monday.
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SHELBY, Mont.  -The Canadian operator of a Montana horse feedlot must extinguish a large manure fire that sends a stench over Shelby, the state Department of Environmental Quality said.
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An Iranian airliner caught fire after a   tire burst on landing at an airport in the northeast of the   country on Friday, killing 28 of the 148 people aboard, state   television reported.
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Dubai airport was closed for at least eight hours on Monday after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft was involved in an accident while trying to take off, officials said.
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A scare triggered by a vibrating sex toy shut down a major Australian regional airport for almost an hour on Monday. The vibrating object was discovered on Monday morning inside a garbage can at the terminal
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Catawba County, N.C., authorities have found a possible link between a dog breeder found shot to death in his home in April and the "Bad Newz Kennels" operated by Michael Vick.
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A French technician for a defense contractor was shot dead here on Sunday, in an attack security officials said might have been carried out by Islamic militants.
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Police arrested a Libyan man and blew up his luggage Saturday in a security scare that closed a small regional airport for about two hours.
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An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.See photos >>Watch video >>
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Two dogs owned by Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Joey Porter got off his fenced property and killed a miniature horse on a nearby farm, leading to citations that carry several hundred dollars in potential fines.
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Nearly 2,000 camels have died this month in Saudi Arabia due to suspected poisoned animal feed.
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An accident involving a giraffe at  a Swedish zoo injures a zookeeper and kills the animal.
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SHREVEPORT, La. - Add this to the many uses of duct tape. Ark-La-Tex Narcotics Task Force agents and Caddo Parish sheriff's deputies stopped a man at a Greyhound terminal Friday after they said he was acting suspiciously, sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick said.
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SN30952 writes &quot;An adult sex toy shut down a key regional airport for almost an hour today when it was mistaken for a bomb, Queensland police said.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A building collapse at a construction site at Dubai airport killed more than eight people and injured many more Monday, a contractor said.
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The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a 300-pound Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.