Dustin Paxton's victim was beaten, starved and mutilated, and there's an effort underway to have people like Paxton be charged with a more serious offence : torture.

A wildlife recovery centre on Vancouver Island says it is overrun with starving animals.

The head of UNICEF's Canadian branch is urging his country to do more to help starving children in Africa.

An experimental drug has helped monkeys lose weight by starving the blood supply to fat cells, the CBC News series Chasing Cures reports.