Kenya's "Obama Circuit"--a bull-versus-bull competition coinciding with celebrations Saturday over Obama's U.S. presidential election--has come under fire from animal rights activists.

The Peruvian government is suing Yale University over artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.

Most Icelanders believe in elves, according to a self-proclaimed elf historian. "According to my files, there are at least 13 different types of elves," he says.

Born this week in a Serbian zoo, the cubs are from an uncommon subspecies that is nearly extinct in the wild.

Scientists are working to halt or even reverse the decline of one of the only coral reefs on the continental United States, near the Florida Keys.

For centuries, each year before Christmas, a Croatian fishing village has "sacrificed" a boat in honor of St. Nicholas, patron saint of children and fishers—and inspiration for Santa Claus.

Caribou, considered the reindeer of Canada, face an uncertain future. Conservationists say climate warming and industrial expansion are putting the species at risk.

Military divers in Mexico spent four hours freeing a grey whale from fishing nets in the bay of Acapulco.

Near Barcelona, Spain, a large solar power plant is in an unlikely location: a cemetery.

Lonesome George, the last giant tortoise of his kind, has failed to reproduce. Eggs laid by companion females were not fertilized.

In Iceland's remote Westman Islands, warming weather is threatening a beloved mascot: the Atlantic puffin.

White lions had nearly disappeared from the African plains. But a breeding program has proven successful, and these snowy cats are once again roaming free.

An inventor in Hong Kong uses his mobile phone to control his life-like robots.

A type of starfish (or sea star), harmless to humans and most marine life, is destroying coral reefs off southern Japan.

The quagga, a zebra subspecies that is only partly striped, has been crossbred back into existence after a hundred years of extinction, scientists say.