In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse.

They climbed onto his pigeon loft. They cut a hole in the roof and descended inside. A third man waited in a getaway car. A security camera captured footage of the heist. The thieves inspected each ...

RANST, Belgium (AP) -- Belgium's once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...