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Australian Open photos show shafts of light at Melbourne Park 01/25/2026 09:49am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Associated Press photographers take a look at the Australian Open through the light and shadows at Melbourne Park. The images capture tennis players hitting their shots in shafts of light. Instead of zooming in on the stars, the photographers focus on the harsh contrast Edin D��eko repays jubilant welcome by scoring on his Schalke debut 01/25/2026 09:48am • GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) ��� Edin D��eko scored minutes after going on for his Schalke debut to help the team snatch a 2-2 draw with Kaiserslautern in Germany���s second division on Sunday. The 39-year-old D��eko, who joined Schalke in a surprise transfer from Italian team Fiorentina on Thursday, Photos shows Japan's love of pandas as twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei return to China 01/25/2026 09:22am • SAITAMA, Japan (AP) ��� Japanese panda fans gathered Sunday for the final public viewing at Tokyo���s Ueno zoo before twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei return to China. Their departure on Tuesday will leave Japan with no pandas for the first time in half a century, and the chances of getting a replacement Hero Dubai Desert Classic Par Scores 01/25/2026 09:08am • Sunday At Emirates Golf Club Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $9 million Yardage: 7,428; Par: 72 Final Round Patrick Reed, United States (1335), $1,302,931 69-66-67-72���274 -14 Hero Dubai Desert Classic Scores 01/25/2026 09:08am • Sunday At Emirates Golf Club Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $9 million Yardage: 7,428; Par: 72 Final Round Patrick Reed, United States (1335), $1,302,931 69-66-67-72���274 Learner Tien reaches Australian Open quarterfinals, the youngest man in the last eight since 2015 01/25/2026 09:04am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Learner Tien is the youngest man to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals in 11 years. He's the youngest American man to go so far in a Grand Slam event since 2002. And he didn't have to go the distance again with three-time runner-up Daniil Medvedev to get there. Th Sleep-tracking devices have limits. Experts want users to know what they are 01/25/2026 08:57am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Your watch says you had three hours of deep sleep. Should you believe it? Millions of people rely on phone apps and wearable devices like rings, smartwatches and sensors to monitor how well they're sleeping, but these trackers don���t necessarily measure sleep directly. Instead, th Protests inside churches are unusual despite long history of civil disobedience in the US 01/25/2026 08:33am • American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to happen inside a house of worship. That is part of what makes the new case against anti-ICE protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, unusual. The group interrupted a service last Sund How Americans are using AI at work, according to a new Gallup poll 01/25/2026 08:01am • American workers adopted artificial intelligence into their work lives at a remarkable pace over the past few years, according to a new poll. Some 12% of employed adults say they use AI daily in their job, according to a Gallup Workforce survey conducted this fall of more than 22,000 U.S. workers. T At 21, Coco Gauff has enjoyed hanging out with emerging teens at Australian Open 01/25/2026 07:44am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Coco Gauff wants those people posing questions to her about the teenagers breaking through at the Australian Open to remember one thing: She���s 21. The 18-year-old Iva Jovic will be playing No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals at Melbourne Park. That's aft Getting to 'no': Europe's leaders find a way to speak with one voice against Trump 01/25/2026 07:34am • LONDON (AP) ��� No more fawning praise. No more polite workarounds and old-style diplomacy. And no one is calling Donald Trump ���daddy��� now. European leaders who scrambled for a year to figure out how to deal with an emboldened American president in his second term edged closer to saying ���no,� People brace themselves for the winter storm moving across the US, in photos 01/25/2026 07:04am • A monster storm is expected to wreak havoc across much of the United States. The storm threatens to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways. Roughly 140 million people were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Aryna Sabalenka beats 19-year-old Mboko, faces 18-year-old Jovic in Australian Open quarterfinals 01/25/2026 07:03am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� TikTok influencer and top-ranked 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, who has drawn praise from fans and other players for her posts on the social media platfor Baghdad says it will prosecute Islamic State militants being moved from Syria to Iraq 01/25/2026 06:53am • BAGHDAD (AP) ��� Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal, Iraq said Sunday. The announcement from Iraq���s highest judicial body came after a meeting of t UK plans to create 'British FBI' to bring national investigations under single police force 01/25/2026 06:09am • LONDON (AP) ��� The British government said Sunday that it will unveil plans this week to create a new national police force, dubbed the ���British FBI," to take charge on complex investigations such as counterterrorism, fraud, online child abuse and criminal gangs. The National Police Service will