CAIRO, May 2 (UPI) -- Egyptian authorities have begun slaughtering 300,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu, officials said.
QUANG NAM, Vietnam, March 5 (UPI) -- An outbreak of blue ear pig disease has struck Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam, officials announced Thursday.
CHARLESTON, S.C., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- An animal organization in South Carolina says it is needs a home for a 500-pound stray pig found wandering in the town of Adams Run.
WINONA, Minn., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Winona, Minn., are probing whether a potbellied pig packing on 100 pounds while in the care of one of its owner's co-workers amounts to abuse.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A Silicon Valley executive has saved a pig at a Los Altos Hills, Calif., farm from the slaughterhouse and is now working to reunite the animal with its sister.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A National Geographic film crew in Sacramento attempting to disprove spontaneous human combustion called 911 after losing control of a burning pig carcass.
NEW DELHI, March 4 (UPI) -- An Indian state ruled by a Hindu nationalist party has passed legislation banning cow slaughter.
LIAONING, China, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Experts in the Chinese province of Liaoning want the Guinness Book of Records to determine whether their 1,980-pound pig was the biggest ever.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Animal welfare groups want to end an annual contest in Taiwan in which pigs are fed forcibly to make them grossly overweight before slaughter.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) --
