The drug lord Pablo Escobar built a private zoo filled with hippos, but things took a dangerous turn when he was shot dead. Read more about it here.

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

Meet Monroe! He’s a Nile hippo at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe - hence the name choice. General Curator ...

The UK has accused Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet on a Ukraine ceasefire at a meeting of allies - at which more than £18bn in aid was pledged to Kyiv. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's envoy has ...