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Animal rights groups object to Buckingham Palace guard's distinctive bearskin caps
LONDON (AP) — An animal rights group trying to get real fur out of the bearskin caps worn by King's Guards at Buckingham Palace took aim Thursday at the cost of the ceremonial garb. The price of the caps soared 30% in a year to more than 2,000 pounds ($2,600) apiece for the hats...
A homemade aquarium appeared in a Brooklyn tree bed. Then came the goldfish heist
NEW YORK (AP) — A couple of longtime Brooklyn residents were lounging in the heat last week, staring at a sidewalk tree pit often flooded by a leaky fire hydrant, when they came up with the idea for a makeshift aquarium. “We started joking about: what if we added fish,”...
A German town's referendum on culling pigeons has led to an uproar by animal rights activists
BERLIN (AP) — An ongoing fight between residents and animal rights activists over whether to cull pigeons in a small German town has led to an uproar — even though a majority of the residents voted in favor of culling the birds in a referendum earlier this month. On Thursday,...
