Authorities in the Bahamas are investigating the deaths of more than a half-dozen of the island nation's famous swimming pigs. The pigs, which are a big tourist draw on the uninhabited island of Big ...

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Indonesia's bid to lure more visitors by spreading halal tourism across the archipelago is facing a backlash, with a Christian celebration of pigs -- forbidden for Muslims -- the latest act of dissent ...

If you’re waiting to fulfill any life goals until pigs fly, heads up: There are swine swimming in the Bahamas already. A colony of pigs in the Exumas, a klatch of islands to the southeast of Nassau in ...

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New regulations are in the works after the deaths of at least seven of the famous swimming pigs on an island in the Bahamas. The pigs are similar to the swimming pig pictured above. By Cox Media Group ...