A German community of over 5,000 residents will no longer allow its single men to hunt down women and repeatedly spank them with cow horns, marking the end of a 200-year-old Christmas ritual.

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The battle for compensation after a brutal cow attack in the Tyrolean Stubai Valley is starting all over again for a ...

Marlar, an elephant cow at Germany's Cologne Zoo, gave birth in the early hours of Saturday to a healthy calf, a strong ...

THE story from AFP, “German cow-on-the-run caught” (The Star, Sept 3), talked about a cow in Bavaria “who escaped from a farm”. Nowadays, people include animals, particularly pets ...