MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — TikTok influencer and top-ranked athlete Aryna Sabalenka is having to work her way through some rising teenage stars in her bid for a third Australian Open title in four years. Sabalenka held off…
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The long queue of fans outside Court 6, the chants of “Alex, Alex, Alex”, and the fluttering Philippines flags all pointed to where Alexandra Eala was making her Australian Open main draw debut.…
BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China’s longtime one-child policy, authorities are pushing a range of ideas and…
OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren’t paying for a premium version of the chatbot. The artificial intelligence company said on Friday, Jan. 16, it hasn’t yet rolled out ads but…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s average temperature in 2025 sizzled at a feverishly elevated level, a jump up from trends of recent decades, but not quite as record-smashing hot as 2024, several climate monitoring teams reported Tuesday, Jan.…
Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday.…
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday, Jan. 12, after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. Among their demands:…
BEVERLY HILLS, California – The Golden Globes and host Nikki Glaser put on a star-studded ceremony that saw wins for the streaming sensation “K-Pop Demon Hunters” (best animated film, song) and an inaugural award for podcasting that…
NEW YORK (AP) — Two things can be true at once. K-pop is an inextricable force in global pop culture, and it has long been undercelebrated at institutions like the Grammys — where K-pop artists have performed…
Just after 8 p.m. Thursday, Iran’s theocracy pulled the plug and disconnected the Islamic Republic’s 85 million people from the rest of the world.…
After a storm swept in off the Atlantic, bringing high winds, rain and snow to the region, thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England were without power Friday morning and residents faced widespread…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday, January 6, closed out the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year by denouncing today’s consumerist and anti-foreigner sentiment, capping a Jubilee that saw some 33 million pilgrims flock to Rome…
