By AFPFrench members of parliament are expected to vote for the first time Thursday on a complete ban on bullfighting, after a national debate that has pitched animal rights defenders against fans of the traditional blood sport.Though public opinion...

By AFPWrithing and grunting, a bull with burning balls of tar attached to its horns charged in the darkness in a small town in northern Spain.Animal rights campaigners have called for a ban on the centuries-old festival in the medieval town of Medina...

As a tiny cub four years ago, Frida the Bengal tiger was found chained up in a restaurant parking lot in Mexico City, dirty, emaciated andunable to walk.Rescued and rehabilitated, she is now a popular attractionat the Reino Animal (Animal Kingdom) pa...