LIMBURG, Belgium — The Chinese businessmen arrived in the Belgian countryside driving luxury sports cars, ferrying translators and bags of cash. When they parked in front of Tom Van Gaver’s small ...

The fate of an unauthorised pigeon loft built without permission near terraced houses in a town’s conservation area is set to be decided next week. It could be decided by a higher committee of Pendle ...

Anatolii Vusatyi, a Ukrainian refugee preparing for his new life in Minnesota, needed to know: Did his family’s house have space in the backyard for a small pigeon loft? He had already been separated ...

But the racing bird serves as a reminder of the brave service of its predecessors in World Wars I and II, and the 1870 siege of Paris. Inside Europe's last military pigeon loft, Sergeant Sylvain ...

RANST, Belgium — Belgium's once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...

Strasbourg, the picturesque city in north-east France, is testing out a pigeon birth control technique that officials estimate will humanely halve the number of pigeons in just three years. If you are ...

Pigeons have to be one of the most unloved animals that humans ever drew to our side. The birds that flock European squares descended from domesticated rock doves some 10,000 years ago, and so are ...

PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio -- If one digs deep enough into any city’s ordinances, they’re bound to find a few arcane items on the books. That’s currently the case in Parma Heights, where City Council is ...

An animal-rights group says it has bought and rehomed three pigeons from the King's estate in Sandringham, arguing that pigeon racing is cruel. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has ...

A pigeon loft in West Lothian was deliberately set ablaze in the early hours of Saturday morning. Emergency services rushed to the fire near Harthill Road in Fauldhouse in the early hours of Saturday, ...

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For the uninitiated the world of the pigeon fancier conjures up an image of an old man in a flat cap, with the sport of racing the birds perhaps considered a pursuit for those of a certain vintage.