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Poachers already killed 15 rare rhinos in northeast Indian preserve in 2013

A gang of poachers killed a rare one-horned rhino at a wildlife park in northeast India, taking to 15 the number of such beasts slaughtered this year, an official said on Sunday. Heavily-armed poachers fired at the rhino late Saturday inside Assam state’s Kaziranga National Park and its horn was…

Two missing photojournalists found dead in Mexico

VERACRUZ, Mexico — Mexican security forces Thursday found the dismembered bodies of two missing news photographers and two others in eastern Veracruz, days after a magazine reporter was killed in the same state. Federal forces found “four bags with the remains of four people, with two of them so far…