Killing Dogs in Training of Doctors Is to End
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By next month, all American medical schools will have stopped operating on dogs to examine their beating hearts.
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Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies.
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Wrangling in Parliament over a possible ban on hunting with dogs is entering what could be its final week.
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health, which supports a variety of biomedical studies using animals, will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for research -- a step animal rights advocates lauded on Thursday.
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A Hindu wedding  ceremony of 18 dogs has been called off in India after hardline  religious groups and animal rights activists said it was a  mockery of the religion and cruel to the canines, a newspaper  reported on Sunday.
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Leading medical experts in Scotland criticise a major shake-up of the regulation of doctors.
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Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, animal welfare activists say.
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The future of hunting with dogs in England and Wales could be determined Wednesday when the Court of Appeal rules whether the legislation used to ban it was valid.
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Supporters of fox hunting are expected to take part in the practice on the last day before it is banned.
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Brutal, no-holds-barred fighting should be banned, doctors say.
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Dozens of dogs seized in an investigation into possible dog fighting on land owned by Michael Vick could be euthanized.
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Â· Manslaughter acquittal over death of five-year-old Â· Judge queries dog's owner escaping charges
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The government should be stripped of its responsibility for training junior doctors in England, a report says.
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A custody fight over a golden retriever that belonged to an estranged couple who died in a murder-suicide has apparently ended with a judge awarding the dog to the family of the man police said killed his estranged girlfriend.
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Two dogs seized because they were believed to be pit bull-type animals have been saved from a death.
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The government is to change a new doctors' recruitment system after an outcry from the profession.
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Dogs are receiving groundbreaking drugs or other treatments for cancer, a leading cause of death in older dogs.