A schoolgirl claims she was chased through woods by a panther. Kim Howells, 15, fled in terror with her cousin Sophie Gwynne after being pursued by the ‘big cat’ in woods near Ruspidge, Gloucestershire. “I saw something out of the corner of my eye and at first I thought it was a log or something,” she said. “Sophie was asking what it was and then we looked behind us and it was about 5m (16ft) away, following...

The Tallahassee Museum’s 10-year-old male panther has been euthanized at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, the museum said Wednesday. Russell Daws, Tallahassee Museum executive director, said the museum didn’t anticipate having to take such action, but the panther had an untreatable illness. “We thought it might have been an object he had swallowed, but when he didn’t recover, we knew we had...