A dispute over koalas has created political chaos in Australia's most populous state with a split in the New South Wales governing coalition forming over policies designed to protect the animals...

The Canidrome Club, owned by one of the city's most powerful women Angela Leong, was until its shutdown Asia's only legal dog-racing track.

The two sloth bears were rescued in southern Nepal in December last year from a pair of itinerant street performers who used the animals for entertainment.

Indians protesting a ban on a traditional form of bullfighting clashed with police and torched vehicles in the southern city of Chennai on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused on Thursday to overturn a Supreme Court ban on a festival featuring young men wrestling with bulls that has brought thousands onto the streets of southern India in protest.