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The Italian coast guard, assisted by a Norwegian vessel, has already rescued 1,200 migrants from a flotilla of vessels off the coast of Libya.

At a time when the U.S. hopes Turkey can be a solid ally against ISIS, the country is facing multiple crises of its own: new elections, Kurdish unrest and a migrant wave.

Gray, the black man who died in Baltimore police custody, is front and center in a new law class at the University of Maryland. The professor says the case lends a view on broad swaths of the law.

Past festivalgoers endured dust storms and hundred-mile winds. "You have to be prepared for things like this," says Burning Man blogger John Curley. But an insect infestation? Not this time, he says.

One in five children in the developing world misses out on routine immunizations. How do you recruit them? With town criers, public notices — and even a call to action emblazoned on a garment.

More than 70 percent of New Orleans residents say some progress has been made in the availability of medical services since the storm. Still, most say care for the poor continues to lag.

The country celebrates but the World Health Organization says it must go six weeks without a new case before the nation can be declared virus-free.

A Japanese man says he wants to show Nepal is safe after the quake and avalanche killed more than 9,000 people there in April.

Laura Martinez defied many skeptics when she opened up her Chicago restaurant, La Diosa, this year. It helps that she used to work for the late Charlie Trotter, one of the city's most acclaimed chefs.

Unlike 2008, the current turmoil didn't originate in the U.S., economist Austan Goolsbee notes. And this time, the economy is growing, banks aren't in danger and there's no credit crunch, he says.