Kidnapped horse Shergar's fate unknown 25 years on
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He has been immortalised on the big screen, in a beer ad, with a racing cup named in his honour. Yet the fate of Shergar remains an enduring mystery 25 years after the champion stallion was kidnapped.
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There are no easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land mammal in check.
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PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal  - The parents of a four-year-old British girl snatched from a Portuguese holiday resort three weeks ago said on Friday they were convinced she was still alive and vowed never to abandon the search for her.
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The mystery baffled archaeologists for more than two decades. What happened to 22,000 pieces of gold &#151; jewel-encrusted crowns, daggers and baubles from an ancient burial mound &#151; that had apparently vanished from Afghanistan in the 1980s?
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BRITISH hostage Ken Bigley may have been on the run for up to 12 hours after making a dramatic escape from his captors before he was caught and beheaded.
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A break-in at Ireland&#39;s equestrian headquarters fueled talk of conspiracy Tuesday following the theft of a doping sample from the Olympic show jumping champion, the country&#39;s only medal winner at the Athens Games.
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They survived the collapse of civilizations and crossed the known world on camelback. Some lay buried for centuries in an Afghan nomad's sepulcher. Others were spirited out of a museum in modern-day Kabul under siege from looters and religious fanatics, then hidden in secret vaults under the pres...
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Iraqi officials struggled today to clear up confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Husseinâs ousted dictatorship had been captured in a shoot-out north of Baghdad.
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One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal.
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Archaeologists believe they have solved the longstanding mystery of how Otzi, the world's most famous iceman, met his end.
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The wife of a missing former FBI agent said Saturday she has been unable to find out what happened to her husband despite visiting the Iranian island where he was last seen.
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A 7 1/2-year-old monster buck named Goliath, allegedly stolen in 1999 and then returned to the ranch where he was raised, has died.
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Abu is not sure exactly how old he was the first time he killed.
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Iraqi authorities are struggling to clear up the confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted dictatorship has been nabbed.
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Juliet the carriage horse held forth for about two decades on the south end of Central Park. She died Friday morning after collapsing in the park the night before.
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PARIS, Dec. 6 -- Mountainous and isolated, caught for centuries between competing empires along one of the world's great trading routes, Afghanistan has always been a place of legends. Twenty-eight years ago, another one was born.
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An escaped steer's six-week romp through back yards, roadways and beaches ended when he was finally cornered and returned to his owner, authorities said.