It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India's Hindu temples. Made of ...

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AFRICA: SURVEYING elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been ...

A driver who sneezed and clipped a pedestrian was fined at Harrogate Magistrates Court on Friday (March 7). Alan Mapplebeck, of Plain Lane in Hampsthwaite, pleaded guilty to one count of driving ...

As tensions between China and the United States ramp up - particularly after the US doubled tariffs on Chinese imports to 20 per cent - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday called on New ...

The mother of a three-year-old boy who has been reunited with his toy elephant which had been sitting in the window of a butcher's shop has trumpeted the power of community for its swift return.

Four elephants had to be rescued from an overturned truck en route to the Samara Karoo Reserve in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday afternoon. Pictures: Supplied/ Video screengrab It was a sincere ...

It’s the first week of JPMorgan Chase’s return-to-office mandate that obliges thousands of people to come back in five days a week, and so far the adjustment has been less than smooth.

There’s an Indian folktale about six blind men who encountered an elephant for the first time. The first touched the side of the huge animal, and concluded that it’s a “wall.” The second put his hand ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...