Animals

False alarm after five big cats 'break out' of zoo in west Germany

Five dangerous big cats - two lions, two tigers and a jaguar - reportedly broke out of a zoo in Rhineland-Palatinate and were still on the loose on Friday morning. But in the afternoon, this all turned out to be a false alarm.

escape

Pelicans with wanderlust escape German zoo

A pair of pelicans with a serious case of wanderlust flew the coop from Osnabrück Zoo last week, only to find their way back days later.

Crime

Two men escape from prison using a blanket

Justice chiefs have blamed a series of unlikely accidents after two men escaped from a Berlin prison on Monday morning by scaling the fence with a blanket.

fine

Fare dodger flees into tunnel to escape fine

A fare dodger who was stopped by ticket inspectors on the Berlin U-Bahn on Thursday morning escaped by jumping onto the tracks and running down a tunnel, delaying all trains in the area.