
The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back.

If ever there was a banner day for hats -- wild and colorful hats -- it was Saturday, the dual spectacle of King Charles III's coronation and the celebration that IS the Kentucky Derby.

Patch, sporting a jean jacket as she strutted down the runway, was crowned the winner of Drake University’s Beautiful Bulldog Contest.

Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, where she spent the past 20 years on loan.

A desert tortoise that is the focus of schoolchild predictions and local lore about the start of spring has emerged from its winter burrow at a nature preserve in Las Vegas, officials said Tuesday.
The guardians of Champagne will let no one take the name of the bubbly beverage in vain, not even a U.S. beer behemoth.

As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. There’s that hairless tail after all.

The “giant pothole” that Arnold Schwarzenegger said he recently filled on a street in his Los Angeles neighborhood was actually a trench that had been dug for utility work, according to the city.
A Spanish mountain climber emerged Friday from a cave 70 meters (230 feet) underground where she spent 500 days isolated from the outside world.

A 1-year-old Australian shepherd took an epic trek across 150 miles (241 kilometers) of frozen Bering Sea ice that included being bitten by a seal or polar bear before he was safely returned to his home in Alaska.