A mother of extremely rare nonuplets is in good health and her nine babies are stable, her doctor in Morocco has said.

Australian conservationists have welcomed the birth of Tasmanian devils in a sanctuary for the first time on Australia's mainland in 3,000 years, a decade after efforts to reintroduce them began.

A double joy for the Cuban National Zoo's employees: the birth of four tigers for the first time in more than 20 years, and among them, the unprecedented presence of a white specimen, a female named Yanek.

A 30-year-old French woman suspected of causing a massive crash by brandishing a sign during the Tour de France has been arrested after presenting herself to authorities in northern France.

Bonaventure Ndikung has been appointed the future director of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Will he offer a new approach on culture and history?

A baby boy hippopotamus was born at the Guadalajara Zoo in Mexico. Weighing at 30 kilos, he spends his day swimming and lounging in the sun with his mother Tami.

After having to leave Afghanistan where she was attacked for cycling, Masomah Ali Zada is now heading for the Tokyo Olympics where she will be part of the refugee team, a source of "pride" for her.

A red panda cub has been born in an Indian zoo as part of a conservation breeding program to increase the population of the endangered animal. With habitats under threat in the Eastern Himalayas and China, red pandas are considered endangered and are highly vulnerable to infectious diseases. Their copper fur, appearance and small size also make them targets for the exotic pet trade.

A baby Sumatran orangutan clings to its mother Tana at Israel's Ramat Gan Safari Park zoo. The baby was born on the 10th of July, 11 years after its father Rachamim.

A panda bred via artificial insemination has been born in Singapore's zoo, the first cub to be born in the city-state. Jia Jia, the zoo's 12-year-old female giant panda, gave birth to the cub after she was artificially inseminated with frozen semen from 13-year-old Kai Kai.

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage recorded a rare twin birth Tuesday as a 25-year-old named Surangi delivered healthy male calves, the first elephant twins born in captivity in the country for 80 years. Official records show there are about 200 domesticated elephants in the island country and an estimated 7,500 in the wild.

The twin pandas born at France's Beauval zoo, who will turn two months old on October 2, have "opened their eyes recently" and now weigh more than 2.8 kg.