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 authorities are desperately trying to find and vaccinate five people at risk of developing rabies from an infected dog.
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Britain is confronting Europe's biggest outbreak of bird flu with a massive slaughter of turkeys _ and worried consumers are asking whether the disease will hit humans next.Comment
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An animal rights protest at a major British hare-hunting event turned violent Monday when spectators pelted the demonstrators with a dismembered hare, bottles, firecrackers and chunks of earth, but nobody was injured, police said.
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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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Â· Police call for crackdown on cheap alcoholÂ· 'Feral' gang had been on seven-hour drinking binge
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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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Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its zoo enclosure on Christmas Day  -  killing one man and mauling two others  -  plan a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues
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Armed police went into action in the German city of Wuppertal after a woman reported seeing a masked criminal -- but having rushed to the scene, they were surprised to find not a crook, but a large stuffed toy.
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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 are investigating whether several items found in the enclosure of a tiger who fatally mauled a 17-year-old man show that the animal was attacked or taunted, San Francisco Zoo spokesman Sam Singer said Wednesday.
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By JAMEY KEATEN  PARIS - A new law in France makes it a crime for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet.
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Belgium police on Friday boosted security in Brussels over fears of a "possible" Christmas attack after the arrest of 14 suspected Islamists, the interior ministry announced.
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A pack of wild boars fleeing hunters  went on a two-hour rampage through a small southern German  village, biting people and damaging cars and shops.
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EVRY, France - 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 ...Comment
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French customs officers have seized a set of Christmas Santa Claus decorations made of cocaine.
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Shoppers hit the High Streets in large numbers as stores slash their prices for post-Christmas sales.