AMSTERDAM (AP) — In the early 17th century, laughter was almost never captured on a painter’s canvas. Frans Hals changed that. “He was not a sober painter,” said Friso Lammertse, co-curator of a major exhibition of the Dutch master’s paintings that opens this week at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. “The people, they often laugh, and that’s very remarkable in the 17th century …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish doctor kidnapped in Chad has been freed and is “safe and sound,” Poland’s foreign minister said Tuesday. The woman had been volunteering at the Saint-Michel Hospital in the Central African nation’s Tandjile region, where kidnappings for ransom are common. Attackers pretending to be patients abducted her and a Mexican doctor, private Polish broadcaster Polsat …

HOUSTON (AP) — Aaron Holiday terminó con 18 puntos, coronados por un par de tiros libres con menos de un segundo por jugar después de una falta de Jalen Brunson detrás de la línea de tres puntos, para impulsar a los Rockets a una victoria por 105-103 sobre los Knicks de Nueva York el lunes por la noche. Houston tenía …