“About 1800 artistes tour all year round; 51 Russians and a troupe of six Chinese acrobats are entertaining audiences in South Africa,” said juggler Mikhail Ivanov. He forms a double act with his wife ...

Some 8,000 people and over 3,000 animals contribute to the spectacle that's known as the Bolshoi Circus. The greatest show in the world – well, one of them, at least – has been coming to Japan since ...

Absolutely not! The only reason I would go is to join any protest against the use of animals for entertainment. The training is cruel, the treatment only makes for stressed, broken animals, and it ...

MOSCOW – I guess you had to be there. The eight of us, bouncing along the road in a van with shocks that hadn’t been changed since the end of the Cold War. My wife and I, my mother-in-law and aunt, my ...