Thursday 2 January 2025
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![A nickel mine is visible on top of a hill above a village on Kabaena Island, Indonesia, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Yusuf Wahil)]()
January 01, 2025Some on Indonesian Islands Fear Mining Damage to Environment
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![From left, Jiro Hamasumi, Terumi Tanaka and Michiko Kodama, members of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, attend a press conference at Japan National Press Club Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)]()
December 31, 2024Atomic Bomb Survivors Plan New Push for Nuclear Disarmament
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![FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 10, 2007, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)]()
December 30, 2024Former US President Jimmy Carter Dies at the Age of 100
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![SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son smiles with President-elect Donald Trump during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)]()
December 25, 2024Why Is SoftBank Investing in the US?
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![Volunteers restore used toys to donate them to vulnerable children as Christmas presents, at the non-profit foundation Hospital de los Peluches, or Hospital of Stuffed Animals, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)]()
December 22, 2024At Venezuela’s Hospital for Soft Toys, Old Toys Find New Life
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![Carol Kruhen lifts up her pressed palms next to a statue of the Buddha after meditating at the New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Meditation Center in Franklin Township, N.J. on Sunday Nov. 30, 2024. (AP photo/Luis Andres Henao)]()
December 19, 2024Near a New Jersey Highway, a Large Statue of Buddha
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![FILE - Deforestation is visible near the Muchacha mine in November 2020, near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Congo. (AP Photo)]()
December 19, 2024Gold Mining Operation Spreads into Protected Area of Congo
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![A man waters flowers outside a luxury house in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)]()
December 12, 2024Peace Brings Big Changes to Kabul's Luxury Housing Market
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![FILE - Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani brings his dog Decoy to deliver the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Baltimore Orioles, Aug. 28, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)]()
December 11, 2024Looking Back on Mispronounced Names and Words
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![A worker packages popsicles at an artisanal factory in Salcedo, Ecuador, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, amid a wave of power outages, triggered by a prolonged dry spell. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)]()
December 10, 2024Power Outages Threaten Ice Cream Industry in Ecuadorean Town
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![FILE - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (L) shakes hands with Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa who was introduced as the first SpaceX private passenger to circle the moon, in Hawthorne, California September 17, 2018. (REUTERS/Gene Blevins)]()
December 09, 2024Report: Wealth Held by Billionaires Jumped in 2024
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![FILE - A Joshua tree is silhouetted in front of the Bobcat Fire at sunset Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in Juniper Hills, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)]()
December 08, 2024California Proposes Plan to Protect Its Famous Joshua Trees
