You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WESTBROOK — Raising and racing homing pigeons can be a fun labor of love, ...

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BAGHDAD — Kidnappers attempting to evade capture in Iraq have hit on a new, risk-free method of collecting ransom payments: the homing pigeon. Iraqi police say they have recorded repeated instances of ...

*It's fantastic. Magic-realist, even. Rivals the Franco-Prussian seige of Paris, which combined pigeons with hot-air balloons. Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle in mobile phones into a ...