Circus

Turkey's flag carrier helped rescue four former circus lions from a boxed-in life, carrying them home to a vast natural habitat in South Africa, Turkish Airlines announced on March 3.

A BULGARIAN CIRCUS worker who had sex with an underage girl in Cork will be sentenced later this month for defilement.

Tsvetomir Velikov (42) later told gardaí that the then 16-year-old girl and her friend claimed they were overage, but they did appear younger. He admitted during interview that he had been reckless about their ages.

Circus performers will be at different locations of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center from 6.30 p.m. every day from Sunday, June 17, to Sunday, June 24, entertaining visitors with weird and wonderful tricks and stunts. Admission to the park is free of charge and there's a free shuttle bus that runs between the SNFCC and Syntagma Square via the Fix metro station.  


DW - An elephant was killed and two others were injured after the truck carrying them crashed on a highway in southeastern Spain on Monday.

Mini Art Fest is an urban festival, whose philosophy is to transform everyday situations and places into extraordinary. The slogan of the festival 8th edition is: CIRCUS is POWER!

This year the focus is ON for social projects as: social circus, workshops in artistic disciplines for the audience to be much more a part of this fest.

Tiger escaped from his cage during a circus performance in the Chinese province of Shanxi, China Daily writes.

The escape of the tiger shook the audience, but luckily in the incident only two people were slightly injured, the huge cat scratched them with its nails. According to some Chinese media, the injured are two children, but others report one child and one adult.

London Metro Station Oxford Circus was evacuated tonight, police reported a possible connection with terrorism, and eyewitnesses spread footage of people fleeing the area on social media. Then two nearby metro stations - Bond Street and Hampton Court Road - were closed, most likely as a precautionary measure, reports BBC. 

Pangrati Park (Alsos Pangratiou) will host circus performances and live music shows while also offering activities for kids on Monday, July 10, and Tuesday, July 11, as part of a municipal campaign to get city residents to celebrate their parks. The main part of the program starts at 6.30 p.m. on both days with performances by students of the Greek-French Circus Dayz group.

The tamer was attacked by one lion at first, but then at least one more took part in the attack. A series of repeated attacks followed, while the audience was watching in horror before fleeing the circus.

The man was saved his assistants with serious injuries but his life is not in danger.

The incident took place in Ukraine.

"Molly's Dream" is the latest production of the Cachivache Circus of acrobats, jugglers, musicians, clowns and other wonderful performers. The show, which will be staged daily at the Pallas Theater in Athens from February 25 to April 9, will delight the whole family.