The six-year tradition of North Carolina Muslims slaughtering chicken, lamb or goat at a hog farm in Princeton during the Eid-al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) ended on Wednesday, the first day of their festival. Eddie Rowe, who runs the 300-acre hog farm, did not allow the ritual in compliance with a Dec. 15 court order stopping the illegal slaughter. Instead, he refunded Muslims who bought animals from him or just told them to kill the animals at their own backyards, which is not illegal.

South Korean scientists said that after altering genes and cloning the cats, they made the cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays. The experiment may be counted as one of the big steps towards using the genetic technology for the modification of human genes to cure diseases, according to the Science and Technology Ministry.

A cat breeder who stored dozens of dead cats in her freezer will have six cats, including two dead ones, returned to her that were seized by authorities. Officials had charged Heidi Erickson with animal cruelty. Authorities found five malnourished cats, a malnourished dog and more than 60 dead cats in her Boston apartment in 2003. Most of the dead animals were stored in freezers.

In a test of short-term memory, young chimpanzees have been proven to be better than adult humans. Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against college students in a numerical skills challenge and the animals won hands down.

The constant admonition for kids to eat their veggies probably will not be heard often in the Krishna-Avanti school in northwest London. The school requires enrollees to be vegetarians. The school policy is criticized by Hindus who find the strict requirement favoring the Hare Krishna tradition. The school's leaning toward practices of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, more known as Hare Krishna, is not surprising since the movement's vegan followers are behind the school administration.