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MILAN FASHION PHOTOS: Naomi Campbell stuns at Dolce&Gabbana in collection highlighting lingerie

Sep. 23, 2023 19:13 PM EDT

MILAN (AP) — The Milan fashion world has become a designer carousel. Powerhouse Gucci and Swiss luxury brand Bally both introduced designers this season, while Tod's bade their creative director farewell and Moschino is in an interim phase. The question on everyone's minds: Where...

Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project

Sep. 23, 2023 15:34 PM EDT

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a makeshift home for scientists, engineers and young soldiers...

As the world's diplomacy roils a few feet away, a little UN oasis offers a riverside pocket of peace

Sep. 23, 2023 13:03 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Inside, with speeches and machinations and carefully deployed elbows, those who administer the world persist in their search for the elusive path to peace. Outside, on the wooded grounds of a place founded on the premise of ending conflict, sometimes they can find it. ...

AP PHOTOS: King Charles and Camilla share moments both regal and ordinary on landmark trip to France

Sep. 23, 2023 00:18 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Playing ping-pong, strolling through a Bordeaux vineyard, dodging raindrops at a Paris flower market — Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla paid a special state visit to France that at times looked richly royal, and at times strikingly ordinary. There was...

With the future of AM unclear, a look back at the powerful role radio plays in baseball history

Sep. 22, 2023 22:51 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Suzyn Waldman fell madly in love with two things: baseball and Broadway shows. During the 1950s and '60s, the long arm of AM radio brought both into her home. “I can still hear Ned Martin of the Red Sox reciting...

At the edge of the UN security perimeter, those with causes (and signs) try to be heard

Sep. 22, 2023 19:16 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Pedro came to the U.S. from Angola five months ago. He works construction in the New York City borough of Queens. Kadija Tyler made the journey from Senegal to Harlem. She works in sales in a department store. Neither is a full-time activist. But they and...

A rare Truman Capote story from the early 1950s is being published for the first time

Sep. 22, 2023 18:52 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished. Capote, who died in 1984 shortly before his 60th birthday, spent much of his latter years struggling to write his...

Sabato De Sarno makes highly anticipated debut at Gucci under the gaze of Hollywood stars

Sep. 22, 2023 18:27 PM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Sabato De Sarno wants people to fall in love anew with Gucci — his Gucci — calling his debut collection “Gucci Ancora,” Italian for “Gucci Again.” The title is a touching admission of the challenges facing Gucci's new creative director, who joined the...

MILAN FASHION PHOTOS: Versace taps Barbie Zeitgeist; Sharon Stone takes front row at Tod's

Sep. 22, 2023 18:10 PM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Rain forced more than one fashion house to scramble for indoor locations in Milan and fashionistas to find a way to move about the gridlocked Italian city without the threat of a drenching Friday. Some scenes from inside the runway shows on the third day of Milan...

What's streaming now: Doja Cat, 'Sex Education,' 'Spy Kids,' 'The Super Models' and 'Superpower'

Sep. 22, 2023 16:00 PM EDT

The return of Netflix’s “Sex Education” with Gillian Anderson, Sean Penn's documentary about Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a docuseries that charts the rise of the first supermodels are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you ...