TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – A zoo in Taiwan’s capital received a pair of endangered red pandas from China on Saturday, in the first exchange of animals in more than a decade as tensions between the two sides run high.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) – A zoo in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana has presented its newest residents: three Siberian tiger cubs who were born there under two weeks ago.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – A museum in Georgia’s oldest city on Wednesday welcomed a truckload of treasures from the earliest period of U.S. history – 17 cannons that experts believe sank to the bottom of the Savannah River during the American Revolution and remained undiscovered for nearly 240 years.

TORONTO (AP) – Canada’s government endorsed a plan Wednesday to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park in Ontario to aquariums in the United States and Spain – a plan that could save them from mass euthanasia if the deal goes through.

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) – On a drizzly Saturday morning late last month, the basement of the New Paltz United Methodist Church filled with old lamps, blunt knives, malfunctioning sound mixers and balky zippers.

Philanthropist Melinda French Gates will expand her giving to improve women’s health globally, pledging another $215 million to support contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives aimed at middle-aged women, including further study of menopause.

LONDON (AP) – The British government said Tuesday that it’s sticking to its net-zero goal, despite pressure on energy supplies from global conflicts, and will reduce the United Kingdom’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 87% of 1990 levels in the next decade and a half.

TOKYO (AP) – Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after the birds went extinct in the country. The endangered birds took off from each of their wooden cages at a ceremony Sunday in Hakui city in the Noto region, where they were last seen in the wild.