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AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports on an Irish voite on home "duties" in the constitution.

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France enshrines abortion as a constitutional right as the world marks International Women's Day
By ANGELA CHARLTON AND JADE LE DELEY - Associated Press
Thu,03/07/24-11:19PM , 90 Reads
PARIS (AP) — France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, in a world first and a powerful message of support to women around the globe on International Women’s Day.
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A skijoring team competes in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Skijoring draws its name from the Norwegian word skikjoring, meaning "ski driving." It started as a practical mode of transportation in Scandinavia and became popular in the Alps around 1900. Today's sport features horses at full gallop towing skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pole that's cut in half. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

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What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? The wild and wacky skijoring
By THOMAS PEIPERT - Associated Press
Thu,03/07/24-11:14PM , 74 Reads
LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he's zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling off jumps. But it's not gravity pulling him toward the finish line: It's the brute force of a quarter horse named Sirius.
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Audible Miranda Cambron takes notes as he prepares for the digital SAT, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

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Pencils down: SATs are going all digital, and students have mixed reviews of the new format
By CAROLYN THOMPSON OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND REBECCA GRIESBACH OF AL.COM
Thu,03/07/24-11:09PM , 40 Reads
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — As SAT season kicks off this weekend, students across the U.S. for the first time will take it with computers and tablets — and not the pencils they've used since the college admissions test was introduced nearly a century ago.
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Kimono-clad "geiko" and "maiko" professional entertainers arrive for a ceremony to start this year's business in Kyoto, western Japan, on Jan. 7, 2020. Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, long a popular destination for tourists, will be closing off some private-property alleys in its famous geisha district, as complaints grow about misbehaving visitors. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

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Kyoto's picturesque geisha district fights back against over-tourism with keep-out signs
Thu,03/07/24-10:38PM , 29 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, long a popular destination for tourists, is closing off some private-property alleys in its famous geisha district because of complaints about misbehaving visitors.
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