After spending their lives enduring brutal treatment, the last of Bulgaria's dancing bears are headed to a mountain sanctuary where they can rest their paws. The bears are the last in a line of centuries of bears in the Balkans that have been trained to dance by walking across burning embers on their bare paws hopping from one foot onto the other to escape the fire while their trainer beat a drum until they connected the drum to the pain. The bears were caught while they were cubs and trained. Many Gypsy, or Roma, families earned their livelihoods with bear dancing for generations.

Police on Tuesday captured a 130-pound-black bear taking a stroll in Knoxville, Tennessee's entertainment district early morning. After his capture, the officials from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency were called in to sedate the wild animal. The bear was found in an alley near the Old City historical district, a market place for shops, restaurants and nightclubs. AP reports that the bear was first spotted Monday night near the University of Tennessee, however it escaped police by jumping over a fence.

Patients at a medical clinic were shocked to see a new patient Friday morning, when a hungry, young black bear walked in through an automatic door; without disturbing anyone. The 125-pound male bear who was probably hungry from a winter of hibernation, wandered into the Presbyterian Medical Group gastroenterology laboratory, a relatively aloof building off one the main drags in Rio Rancho, north of Albuquerque in the early morning hours.

Royal courtiers wanted to block the sale of "tasteless" memorabilia when Britain's Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947. Papers released Tuesday by the National Archives at Kew, west London, revealed that members of Britain's Royal Court took their concerns over the wedding souvenirs to the Home Office. The courtiers were particularly annoyed about the "undesirable" handkerchiefs, produced by the Cheadle Fabric Factory.