Europe

Cortina’s Axis Games Olympics
Gold-medalist Josef Jennewein of Germany, center, silver-medalist Alberto Marcellin of Italy, left, and bronze-medalist Rudolf Cranz of Germany perform a fascist salute on the podium during the 1941 Alpine Ski World Ski Championships, in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. (Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia via AP)

Europe

AP report sheds light on forgotten ‘mini-Olympics’ in fascist Italy during World War II

FEB. 6, 2026

APTOPIX Milan Cortina Olympics Opening Ceremony
Entertainers perform under the Olympic rings during the Olympic opening ceremony at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Europe

Photos from the Milan Cortina Olympics opening ceremony

FEB. 6, 2026

Milan Cortina Olympics Curling
Sweden's Rasmus & Isabella Wranaa compete during a curling mixed doubles session against South Korea at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Europe

Curling opens competition at 2026 Winter Olympics as brief power outage pauses play, luge training

FEB. 4, 2026

Italy Accessible Art
Stefania Terre, who is blind, uses a small light on her fingers while touching a life-size reproduction of the head of Michelangelo's David as she poses for a long-exposure photograph at the Omero Tactile Museum in Ancona, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Europe

Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible for blind people

FEB. 4, 2026

APTOPIX Milan Cortina Olympics Alpine Skiing
United States' Lindsey Vonn smiles during a press conference by the U.S. ski team at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Europe

Lindsey Vonn is ‘confident’ she can race at Olympics despite ruptured ACL in left knee

FEB. 3, 2026

APTOPIX France Fashion Stephane Rolland S/S 26
An acrobat performs at the Stephane Rolland Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture collection presented in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Europe

Haute couture highlights from Paris, in photos

JAN. 29, 2026

Milan Vukajlovic
Milan Vukajlovic, an amateur actor, poses for a photograph in an old villa used for theater performances by an independent theater production, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Europe

A historic house in Serbia’s capital hangs on with intimate theatrical productions

JAN. 28, 2026

Cortina’s Axis Games Olympics
Gold-medalist Josef Jennewein of Germany, center, silver-medalist Alberto Marcellin of Italy, left, and bronze-medalist Rudolf Cranz of Germany perform a fascist salute on the podium during the 1941 Alpine Ski World Ski Championships, in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. (Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia via AP)

Europe

Fascist salutes from the podium: Cortina’s forgotten ‘mini-Olympics’ during World War II

JAN. 27, 2026

Oldest Wooden Tools
This undated image provided by Katerina Harvati shows a 430,000 year old wooden tool from Greece that was possibly used for digging. (Katerina Harvati, Dimitris Michailidis via AP)

USA

Scientists recover the oldest wooden tools from a site in Greece

JAN. 26, 2026

Britain Love Letters
A 16th century letter written by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, to Queen Elizabeth I, on view during a preview of the Love Letters exhibition at the National Archives in London on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, shows two dots written above the word poor, a reference to the monarch's nickname for Dudley: Eyes. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Europe

Historic love letters from royals, rogues and romantics go on show at Britain’s National Archives

JAN. 21, 2026

Shaun White-Next Chapter
FILE - USA's gold medalist Shaun White reacts during the men's halfpipe medal ceremony at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Europe

Olympic great Shaun White’s next chapter: Shaping snowboarding from outside the halfpipe

JAN. 15, 2026

BOB-Bobsled Preview
FILE - Winner Kaysha Love of the United States celebrates after the women's monobob race at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Europe

Diversity still a major issue at the Winter Olympics. The US is making some strides

JAN. 14, 2026

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