Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pigeon racing is taking off in China. Eight thousand of the birds were released into the winter sky in northern Hebei province ...

A racing pigeon was bought at auction last Sunday – and the price tag was nothing to coo at. New Kim, a Belgian-bred racing pigeon, was sold for $1.9 million to a wealthy Chinese bidder under the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pigeon sold for a record-breaking $1.9 million in China in November 2020, making it the most that a racing pigeon has ever been ...

Dwindling open spaces and fast-fading traditions threaten a pursuit that can trace its roots back centuries. Animal rights activists would not be sad to see it go. Credit...Rachel Wisniewski for The ...

Pigeons: Their flocks, their purring calls, the nests tucked away in corners, the feathers that drift into our homes with the wind. This is perhaps how most urban dwellers would describe the bird.

Thursday, June 6, marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day — when Allied forces launched the largest amphibious attack in the history of warfare on the beaches of Normandy, France. To mark the occasion, ...

This was the moment a large-scale pigeon race started at L'Ancresse Bay in Guernsey on Saturday morning. Hundreds of homing ...

Mourners gathered in Iraq's holy city of Najaf as the coffin of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrived from Iran in a six-day funeral procession.