25 h. ago An animal rights activist was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for 15 years. Will he be returned to the US?

Daniel Andreas San Diego, now 47, is fighting extradition from the UK amid accusations he set off three pipe bombs in 2003Twenty-two years ago, a dark-haired, bespectacled young man vanished off the streets of San Francisco. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 25-year-old information technology specialist, diehard vegan and animal rights activist, was the FBI’s main suspect in a series of pipe bombings that exploded in front of the headquarters of Chiron Corporation and Shaklee Corporation, two Bay Area companies, in August and September of 2003.Communiques attributed to the Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade were posted to the website of an animal rights magazine, claiming the attacks were carried out to highlight both firms’ alleged work with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British research company that conducted tests for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other chemical companies and had drawn the ire of activists on both sides of the Atlantic opposing its tests on animals. Cont...

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3 d. ago Activist gets jail time for posing as poultry worker and stealing chickens from plant

The activist with a Berkeley-based animal rights group has said she does not regret what she did

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6 d. ago Demonstrator interrupts Fashion Awards 2025 as animal rights activist runs on to red carpet to hold up a PETA sign while Wallis Day poses for photos

The animal rights activists stood beside actress Wallis Day while she posed for photos ahead of the ceremony.

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6 d. ago Full list of retailer Christmas return dates to avoid unwanted gifts this festive season

A consumer expert has shared the last return dates for Christmas gifts to ease shopping stress this year.

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8 d. ago Brutal but brilliant British heavyweight title fight restores boxing’s good name

In an era of contrived fights featuring D-list celebrities, Saturday’s British heavyweight title fight marked the welcome return of boxing at its best

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8 d. ago Who stars in Bay Of Fires? New and returning cast list for series 2

Bay of Fires series 2 is returning to ITVX with Marta Dusseldorp reprising her role alongside new cast members Benedict Hardie, Alex Dimitriades and Darren Gilshenan

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1 week ago ‘It’s heartbreaking’: how 30 captive beluga whales have become pawns in row over animal cruelty

As the government, Marineland of Canada and activists remain at loggerheads over whales’ fate, health and freedom of beloved animals hangs in balanceJelly Bean’s daughter Bertie Botts is an adorable little “ham sandwich”. Orion – nicknamed “Onion Ring” – is a large but fiercely protective friend. Zephyr has “ants in his pants” and wiggles like a worm. Lillooet is the “biggest cuddle bug” with a heart of gold.Thirty captive beluga whales in a Canadian amusement park have become pawns in a tussle between a shuttered park, local and national governments and animal rights activists. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Gwyneth Paltrow drops angora products from her Goop store following condemnation from animal rights protesters

PETA had urged the star Goop to stop using wool gruesomely culled from fluffy angora rabbits at Chinese factories, which most big brands stopped using due to animal cruelty concerns.

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1 week ago Major Asian capital finally bans dog and cat meat in victory for animal rights activists

New regulations outlaw trade and slaughter of animals deemed high-risk for rabies transmission

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on animal testing: we can stop sacrificing millions of lives for our own health | Editorial

New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. This isn’t just morally right, it could have scientific and economic benefits tooScience is a slaughterhouse. We rarely acknowledge the degree to which animal life underwrites the research that provides us with medicines, or the regulation that keeps us safe. Live animals were used in 2.64m officially sanctioned scientific procedures in the UK in 2024, many of them distressing or painful and many of them fatal. But the government’s new strategy to phase out animal testing – published earlier this month – suggests that in the near future emerging technologies can largely replace the use of animals in our scientific endeavours.The UK previously banned cosmetics testing on animals, and has already taken steps to regulate and reduce their use in research. But some needlessly cruel experiments still take place: the forced swim test (FST) for example, in which a rodent is placed in a body of water it canno...

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2 w. ago The Met officer who infiltrated the animal rights mob for five years... then fell for a violent activist she has now married: IAN GALLAGHER on the latest twist in the 'spycops' saga

None of the watchful band of animal rights fanatics suspected the truth about the ever-helpful woman they knew as Christine. All agreed she was a recruit of rare dedication and no little zeal.

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2 w. ago The Met officer who infilitrated the animal rights mob for five years... then fell for a violent activist she has now married: IAN GALLAGHER on the latest twist in the 'spycops' saga

None of the watchful band of animal rights fanatics suspected the truth about the ever-helpful woman they knew as Christine. All agreed she was a recruit of rare dedication and no little zeal.

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3 w. ago Female trophy hunter offering Brits discount price to kill endangered leopards

An advert that was sent out by Unleashed Global Adventures - run by US hunter Larysa Switlyk - offering people the opportunity to kill endangered leopards has been met with outrage by a number of animal rights groups

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3 w. ago Former duchess's animal rights charity that claimed Lily Allen, Hugh Grant and Sting as followers spreads antisemitic conspiracies blaming 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and war in Ukraine

Farms not Factories, which campaigns against pig factories, has blamed 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine in its newsletters.

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3 w. ago Former duchess's animal rights charity that claims Lily Allen, Hugh Grant and Sting as followers spreads antisemitic conspiracies blaming 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and war in Ukraine

Farms not Factories, which campaigns against pig factories, has blamed 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine in its newsletters.

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3 w. ago Animal rights charity that claims Lily Allen, Hugh Grant and Sting as followers spreads antisemitic conspiracies blaming 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and war in Ukraine

Farms not Factories, which campaigns against pig factories, has blamed 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine in its newsletters.

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4 w. ago ‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’ The founder of Peta on gruesome stunts and her bloody fight for animal rights

After 45 years as chief fake blood thrower, Ingrid Newkirk is still waging war on everything from leather to cashmere. Is she still relevant?Ingrid Newkirk was 54 when she thought she was going to die in a plane crash. It was late summer and the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) was flying from Minneapolis in the US to the company HQ in Norfolk, Virginia when her plane encountered strong wind shear. The pilot attempted an emergency landing, but failed; back up they went.On the third attempt, with “a teaspoon of fuel” in the tank, he finally got the plane down safely. During those moments, Newkirk, now 76, scribbled a will on a napkin. She has tweaked it over the years, but it still reads like a horror movie prop list: her liver is to be sent to France to be made into foie gras, her skin to Hermès to create a handbag and her lips to whichever US president is in power, to shame them for granting a “patronising” pardon to a turkey each Thanksgiving. As wills...

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