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BOBRYK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian students near the front line of Russia’s invasion started their first day back to school underground to ensure their safety, marking the fourth year that schools have kept lessons going despite the war. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. School students listen to their teacher during a lesson, in the basement of a municipal building during the first day in school in Bobryk, Sumy region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. The Bobryk school was forced to move to the basement due to endless alarms. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) School students listen to…
VENICE (AP) — Singer Halsey bid for the top lot at the amfAR Venezia fundraiser Sunday and spoke on the red carpet about how the charitable foundation’s work has helped her personally.Hosted by an impassioned Colman Domingo in a bright green custom Valentino jacket, the event took place at the Arsenale during the Venice Film Festival.More low key and intimate than it’s Cannes Film Festival counterpart, the event still attracted its share of celebrities including Jude Law, in Venice to promote “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” in which he stars as Putin.The evening started with champagne, canapés, Italian spritz and…
As pro wrestling great and noted philosopher Ric Flair famously said, to be the man, you gotta beat the man.Defending national champion Ohio State is still the man in college football.The purveyors of preseason rankings had anointed Texas largely because of what in retrospect was an overabundance of hype surrounding Arch Manning. Reality hit at the Horseshoe on Saturday, and now the Buckeyes are in position to jump Penn State and return to No. 1 when The Associated Press’ first Top 25 of the regular season drops Tuesday.Look for No. 9 LSU to garner support for No. 1, as well,…
By Ezgi ErkoyunISTANBUL (Reuters) -In a brightly lit treatment room at a private hospital in Istanbul, doctor Erdal Dilekci makes dozens of small, quick incisions on a patient’s back as part of a centuries-old therapy known as wet cupping.The patient, 26-year-old nurse Furkan Ali Sayan, lies quietly as the doctor then places eight suction cups designed to draw out toxins and ease his neck and back pain.Over the next 15 minutes, the cups slowly fill with blood.”I don’t feel much yet, but I expect the benefits to come in the next few days,” said Furkan, having his first session.Known in…
Morris Chang is a legend in the semiconductor business.He created the world’s largest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which works with companies such as Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm and has seen swelling demand for its products amid the AI boom.Now 94 years old, Chang has a net worth of $5.1 billion, according to Forbes.He spent two decades at Texas Instruments before starting TSMC at the age of 55.He rarely gives interviews but has shared some valuable business and leadership lessons from his successful career over the years.On getting promotionsChang was on the fast track at Texas Instruments and quickly…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Suvendu Mohanty, a 37-year-old machine learning engineer at Amazon. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I got my Master’s in Computer Science in 2011, and like others, I got tracked into coding as a software engineer. I started my career as a Java engineer developing software applications. Six or seven years later, I came across the profile of machine learning.Machine learning was not in a boom at that moment. The projects we got were almost always software engineering; machine learning projects were really, really hard to get.The college education system also…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida State linebacker is in critical but stable condition after being shot while visiting family, the Seminoles said Monday.Ethan Pritchard, a 6-foot-2, 224-pound freshman from Sanford, was in intensive care at a Tallahassee-area hospital. He was shot Sunday evening while inside a vehicle outside apartments in Havana, according to the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office.“The Pritchard family is thankful for the support from so many people, as well as the care from first responders and medical professionals, and asks that their privacy be respected at this time,” FSU said in a statement. “Further updates will be…
European captain Luke Donald is bringing the same 12 faces — one different name — to the Ryder Cup with hopes of creating a new experience while getting the same outcome as when they dismantled the Americans two years ago in Rome.Donald filled out the rest of his 12-man team Monday with six captain’s picks, all of whom contributed to a resounding victory at Marco Simone in 2023.There were no surprises. Donald asked Matt Fitzpatrick to play the last two weeks at the British Masters and European Masters, and he obliged by delivering a pair of top-six finishes. The former…
BOBRYK, Ukraine (AP) — Pupils were returning to schools in Ukraine on Monday for the start of the new academic year in the hope of being able to study safely under the shadow of Russia’s invasion.Since the start of the war, in February 2022, schools have found different ways to keep lessons going for pupils. In Bobryk, a village in northern Sumy region — not far from the front line — one school moved its classrooms entirely into a basement so students, whose education had already been impacted due to COVID lockdowns, could learn in person.“We must do everything so…
Ohio State and Florida State got into the win column. Texas and Alabama did not. The first big weekend of major college football is in the books, and now, players and athletic departments can settle into a new, once-unthinkable era in which schools pay athletes and a team’s ultimate goal isn’t a bowl game, but the playoff.Nobody should get too comfortable. In just seven years, the main funding source of all this change — a menu of media deals highlighted by ESPN’s $7.8 billion contract to televise the College Football Playoff — will either be renegotiated or blown up amid…