Africa
JOHANNESBURG - Police are warning residents of a South African neighborhood against approaching a 17-month-old Bengal tiger that escaped from its owners.
GABORONE, Botswana - Britain's royal brothers were a bit nervous when game wardens asked them to hold an 8.5 foot (2.6 meter) African rock python.
The International Appalachian Trail extends a total of 1,862 miles, or 3,016 kilometers, from Maine to its terminus in Newfoundland and Labrador.
CAIRO - A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.
WASHINGTON - A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday.
