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Jayarasa Abilash, known as Baby 81 after he was swept away by the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami, stands in front of a monument built in memory of tsunami victims outside his residence in Kurukkalmadam, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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20 years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, a boy found in the mud embraces being known as 'Baby 81'
By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press
Mon,12/23/24-10:22PM , 129 Reads
KURUKKAL MADAM, Sri Lanka (AP) — Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known as “Baby 81” is now a
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Shoes hanging in front of portraits of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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UN investigative team says Syria's new authorities 'very receptive' to probe of Assad war crimes
Mon,12/23/24-6:26PM , 43 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria said Monday the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus, and it is preparing to deploy.
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President Jimmy Carter views the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Locks in Canal Zone on June 17, 1978. On Friday Carter signed the final Panama Canal Treaties giving control of the canal to Panama in 2000. (AP Photo/Tasnadi, File)

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A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own
By WILL WEISSERT, JUAN ZAMORANO AND GARY FIELDS - Associated Press
Mon,12/23/24-3:20PM , 30 Reads
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to take back the waterway for the same republic.
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An endangered Geoffrey's spider monkey that had been rescued and living in the care of the Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary in Dominical, Costa Rica, on March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien, File)

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AI will eavesdrop on world's wildest places to track and help protect endangered wildlife
By MATT O'BRIEN - AP Technology Writer
Mon,12/23/24-9:50AM , 405 Reads
PUERTO JIMÉNEZ, Costa Rica (AP) — The endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys that dangle high in the rainforest canopy are elusive and hard for scientists to track.

So biologist Jenna Lawson hid 350 audio monitors in trees across Costa Rica's lush Osa Peninsula to spy on them.
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