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Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Niño brings hunger to southern Africa

Mar. 25, 2024 02:41 AM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The southern African nation of Malawi has declared a state of disaster over drought in 23 of its 28 districts and the president says it urgently needs more than $200 million in humanitarian assistance, less than a month after neighboring Zambia also appealed for...

Laurent de Brunhoff, ‘Babar’ heir and author, dies at age 98

Mar. 23, 2024 15:18 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — "Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, died...

A 41-year-old pelican and other animals wait for their food at Nepal's only zoo

Mar. 08, 2024 23:14 PM EST

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — At the stroke of 10 every morning at the only zoo in Nepal, a 41-year-old pelican arrives at the entrance of the animal kitchen, waiting patiently for program officer Ganesh Koirala to arrive. The pelican knows that with Koirala will come breakfast — a one-kilogram...

A party like no other? Asia's richest man celebrates son's prenuptials with a star-studded bash

Mar. 04, 2024 13:27 PM EST

NEW DELHI (AP) — What happens when the son of Asia's richest man is about to get married? His father throws a three-day prenuptial bash four months before the actual ceremony. Tycoons from around the world, heads of state, as well as Hollywood and Bollywood stars...

Kenya's leader wants a paved road to cut through a forest, a key water source. Scientists don't

Feb. 03, 2024 11:32 AM EST

ABERDARE RANGE, Kenya (AP) — In a dense layer of green thousands of feet above sea level, cedar, podo and hegeina trees pattern the landscape, thick moss hanging from their branches and feathery lichen attached to their barks. Numerous streams and rivers flow between them, plunging over steep...

Prada reconnects with the seasons for its 2024-25 fall-winter menswear collection

Jan. 14, 2024 12:24 PM EST

MILAN (AP) — Prada brought nature indoors as a backdrop for its 2024-25 fall and winter menswear collection meant to get humans outside. Underfoot, beneath a plexiglass floor in the Prada showroom revamped for the new season, a man-made stream murmured over rocks and rustled...

Ailing, 53-year-old female elephant euthanized at Los Angeles Zoo

Jan. 04, 2024 20:08 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 53-year-old Asian elephant has been euthanized at the Los Angeles Zoo after she was unable to stand up, the zoo announced Thursday. Shaunzi, one of two female elephants at the zoo, was discovered unable to stand Tuesday night after she went down in the yard of...

Unsold Christmas trees are on the menu for elephants and bison at the Berlin Zoo

Jan. 04, 2024 08:03 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — There’s a bit of post-Christmas cheer on the menu for elephants and other tenants at the Berlin Zoo: they can chomp on Christmas trees that didn’t find a home. The tree treats were unwrapped Thursday in what has become an annual event. Elephants tore off branches...