 | | Migrants arriving in Düsseldorf, Germany, today. The president of the European Commission announced an emergency quota system. Maja Hitji/European Pressphoto Agency | Your Wednesday Briefing By VICTORIA SHANNON |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Migrant quotas back on the table. |
| In his State of the European Union address today, Jean-Claude Juncker announced an emergency quota system to spread the burden of taking in 160,000 refugees in Hungary, Greece and elsewhere among other member states. |
| E.U. leaders failed to agree on a far more modest quota plan in June, but the grim deaths of many migrants since then may have shifted sentiment. |
| • Moving past an apology. |
| Allies of Hillary Rodham Clinton hope her apology and admission that use of a private email server while she was secretary of state was a "mistake" will quiet the controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy. |
| In a campaign speech today, she is expected to vow to take military action if Iran races for the capacity to build a nuclear bomb, not just keep the option available, as President Obama has said he would. |
| • Russian presence in Syria. |
| Russia's Foreign Ministry said today that it had military experts in Syria, the first official confirmation of a presence on the ground there. |
| The apparent military preparations and the Obama administration's attempt to block them are escalating long-running tensions between the White House and the Kremlin. |
| Bulgaria agreed to an appeal from the Obama administration to shut its airspace to Russian transport planes. Greece has not publicly responded to a similar request. |
| • China courts U.S. tech industry. |
| President Xi Jinping of China plans to make Washington — the state, not the city — the first stop on his U.S. visit this month, as his country hosts an Internet industry forum on Sept. 23 in Seattle. |
| The forum comes amid a technological cold war of sorts between the two nations, with the U.S. accusing China of hacking attacks, censorship and business barriers. Tech executives from companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, I.B.M. and Microsoft are on the guest list. |
| • Planned Parenthood videos at issue. |
| The House Judiciary Committee holds its first hearing on Planned Parenthood's video controversy today, with testimony from the anti-abortion group National Right to Life and two "abortion survivors" who lived through their mothers' attempts to terminate pregnancies. |
| An activist group released nine videos this summer that claim to show the organization profiting from its fetal tissue donation program. |
| • School's out in Seattle. |
| The first day of school in Seattle starts with a teachers' strike, the city's first in 30 years. |
| The union and the city remain divided over staffing levels and questions about student testing. |
| • Engine fire disrupts U.S. air travel. |
| An engine on a British Airways jet caught fire during takeoff from Las Vegas on Tuesday, causing minor injuries to seven passengers and disrupting air travel in the West. |
| The Boeing 777 was rolling down the runway, bound for London, when its left engine burst into flames. The fire did not reach the cabin. |
| MARKETS |
| • Apple unveils new products today, among them an upgraded Apple TV, a new iPad and a revamped iPhone, the company's most crucial product. (Our live blog is up and running.) |
| The iPhone 6S will have a higher-quality camera and a feature called Force Touch, which lets users gain access to phone functions by pressing hard on the screen, according to people briefed on the products. |
| • Three top executives of United Airlines resigned amid a federal investigation into whether the airline had traded favors with the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an appointee of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. |
| • Lufthansa canceled more than 1,000 flights, two-thirds of those scheduled, today as pilots held their 13th strike in 18 months. |
| • Yahoo is reconsidering its plan to spin off its $23 billion stake in Alibaba after U.S. authorities declined to rule on whether the transaction would mean huge capital gains taxes for Yahoo or its shareholders. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are surging this morning as European and Asian shares rally. |
| The Nikkei index in Tokyo added 7.7 percent today for its biggest one-day gain since 2008. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Talent search needs sponsor. |
| Intel is dropping its longtime support of the Science Talent Search for American high school students, without explanation. |
| The contest, which started as an essay competition in 1942 sponsored by Westinghouse, counts among its finalists Nobel Prize winners, chief executives, university professors and award-winning scientists. |
| • A royal record. |
| Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's longest-reigning monarch today, overtaking the rule of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria of 63 years, seven months and three days. |
| While Victoria ruled over an empire of 400 million people, Elizabeth is head of state for 138 million. |
| Since Elizabeth's coronation at age 25 in 1952, she has outlasted 12 British prime ministers, 12 U.S. presidents and 11 Soviet or Russian leaders. And more than 30 of her own corgis. |
| • Semifinals take shape. |
| Petra Kvitova meets Flavia Pennetta, and Victoria Azarenka faces Simona Halep in today's women's quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern, ESPN; 8 to 11 p.m., ESPN2). |
| In the men's quarterfinals today, it's Stan Wawrinka vs. Kevin Anderson. |
| After defeating her older sister Venus, Serena Williams will takes on Roberta Vinci, a 32-year-old from Italy, in the semifinals on Thursday. |
| • Picasso, sculptor. |
| The Museum of Modern Art in New York shows today a preview of a large survey of Pablo Picasso's three-dimensional works, the first in the U.S. in nearly half a century, in advance of its Monday opening to the public on Monday. |
| • Debugging debunked. |
| Lt. Grace Murray Hopper is often credited with coining the words "bugging" and "debugging" 70 years ago today, after a moth interfered with a primitive Mark II computer, which she helped design at Harvard. |
| But other sources say use of the term "bug" to mean an unexplained electrical problem predates World War II, and it is found in an 1896 handbook. |
| BACK STORY |
| As fall semester begins and college rivalries return, we should point out that the University of Oxford in England has Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., beat in at least one regard: age. |
| Harvard claims bragging rights as the oldest U.S. university — it dates to 1636 — while Oxford was founded around 1096. |
| But they are mere freshmen compared with their Asian forerunners. |
| Takshashila University, in present-day Pakistan, was founded in 700 B.C. and is considered the world's first higher education institution. |
| Its students came from across Asia and from as far away as Greece, Turkey and the Middle East to learn astronomy, fine arts, math, medicine, philosophy and politics, among other subjects. The university lasted 800 years. |
| Nalanda University was founded in A.D. 427 in northeastern India and survived until about 1193, felled by an invading Turkish Army. (A school with the same name opened in 2014.) |
| It had 2,000 teachers for 10,000 students, a ratio that would be No. 1 in our modern rankings. |
| But schools like Al Quaraouiyine University in Morocco (dating from 859) and Al Azhar in Egypt (founded in 972) are still with us, and are the oldest in continuous operation in the world. |
| Adeel Hassan contributed reporting. |
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