A lion prowled the streets of an Italian seaside town for several hours Saturday after escaping from a local circus, before being sedated and captured. The lion posed no threat to the public, his ...

An escaped circus lion terrorized an Italian town for hours before finally being sedated and captured. State and local police officers, in addition to the Carabinieri, descended on the town of ...

(CNN) — A lion that escaped from a circus in the Italian town of Ladispoli, near Rome, on Saturday has been recaptured after several hours on the loose, the local mayor has announced. Just after 10 ...

Lion brothers Rey and Simba were rescued from a circus in Ayacucho, a rural town high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. After Peru passed a ban on using wild animals in circuses in 2011, Animal ...

UKRAINE -- A lion tamer is back in the ring after a lion attacked him during a circus performance in Ukraine more than one week ago. The terrifying moment 32-year-old Hamada Kouta was mauled was ...

This is the terrifying moment a circus lion viciously attacked a trainer in front of screaming children. Hamada Kouta, 32, a well-known performer in eastern Europe, was overpowered by the angry big ...

An escaped lion has sent an Italian town into a state of panic, with residents warned to stay indoors. The huge adult male lion, reportedly named Kimba, escaped from the Rony Roller circus on Saturday ...

COLOMBIA - - Colombia on Thursday prepared nine former circus lions for a long trip to South Africa where they will live out their days in a wildlife sanctuary. Workers from Animal Defenders ...

STORY: The lion, named "Kimba", escaped from the "Rony Roller" circus and was caught and sedated after an around seven-hour hunt by local authorities. In the afternoon, Ladispoli Mayor Alessandro ...