[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The new school year has finally arrived and with it some challenges. We wanted to give you a peek into how various schools across Europe are handling the return to the classroom after months of online learning.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis reported that the $659 billion dollar Paycheck Protection Program, aimed at helping small U.S. businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, may have been subject to fraud, waste and abuse.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] While the S&P boasted its steepest August percentage gain in more than three decades, it ended Monday slightly lower and the Dow also lost ground as investors took a pause. However, the Nasdaq closed higher thanks to high-flying stocks.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] West Africa dispatched negotiators to Mali at the weekend in a bid to reverse President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s removal from power last week in a military coup.  So far, there have been three days of discussions without any decision on the make-up of a transitional government.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] India’s foreign ministry accused Chinese troops of taking “provocative actions” on the disputed Himalayan mountain border while commanders from both sides were holding talks on Monday to defuse tensions.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Parachutist Raphael Domjan reached a speed of 150 kilometers per hour during his jump, which was the first jump from a solar-powered aircraft in recorded history.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Israeli military said that Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel, which responded with air strikes overnight, in the most serious escalation of cross-border violence in months, prompting mediators to step up de-escalation efforts.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party nomination for President on Thursday, saying he’d heal a country battered by a deadly pandemic and divided by four years of Donald Trump’s presidency.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] With firefighting forces badly depleted from the heaviest spate of incendiary lightning strikes to rake California in over a decade, some ground crews labored through grueling 72-hour shifts against the deadly onslaught, despite efforts to muster reinforcements from out of state.