Cries for help inside a Trenton, N.J., home turned out to be for the birds.

Pro golfer Tripp Isenhour has pleaded no contest to charges he faced for killing a protected hawk.

South Korea plans to declare itself free of bird flu this week, more than three months after a series of outbreaks led authorities to slaughter nearly 8.5 million birds, an official said...

An Indonesian factory worker died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 112, a top health official said Sunday.

Palaeontologists have unveiled an extraordinary prehistoric ‘flying’ reptile which lived 235 million years ago.

An Indonesian cargo worker died of bird flu, relatives confirmed Thursday, raising the unofficial toll in the world’s hardest hit nation to 111 in three years.The government recently started delaying announcements about bird flu fatalities,...

South Korea said Monday it has lifted all special restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of bird flu after a series of recent outbreaks.The Agriculture Ministry said in a statement it has slaughtered about 8.5 million birds to combat outbreaks...

Kermit Love, the costume designer who helped puppeteer Jim Henson create Big Bird and other “Sesame Street” characters, has died. He was 91.Love died from congestive heart failure Saturday in Poughkeepsie, near his home in...

On the street, Caroll Spinney is a 74-year-old of modest proportions. On the job, transformed into Big Bird, he stands 8 feet 2 inches tall and is 6 years old.Being Big Bird is sweaty, physical work. But Spinney, who has worked on Sesame Street...

Health officials ordered the slaughter of all live poultry in Hong Kong’s street markets on Wednesday after detecting one of the largest outbreaks of the bird flu virus in years.The action comes after tests showed four markets had poultry...