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A Fatal Hit-And-Run Leads To A Collision Of Cultures In 'Waking Lions'

A doctor is forced into secret medical service in Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's new novel. Maureen Corrigan calls it "a psychological suspense tale mashed with a social novel about the refugee crisis."

A Rohingya woman walks past a flooded farm near the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, where the monsoon season started in June and has caused casualties and landslides.

Boy Dies, Thousands At Risk As Monsoon Rains Lash Rohingya Refugee Camps

Members of the Muslim minority group who fled rape, murder and brutality in Myanmar now face different threats in southeastern Bangladesh: flooding, landslides and disease.

A cholera treatment facility in Abs, Yemen became a ruin after Saudi-led strikes hit it, according to Doctors Without Borders.

Airstrike Reportedly Hits Doctors Without Borders Facility In Yemen

The international aid group says the cholera treatment center had clear markings and that it gave its coordinates to the Saudi-UAE-led coalition that carried out the strike.

Smoke billows up from a fire burning in the mountains over the Napa Valley last October in Oakville, Calif.

PG&E Power Lines Blamed For Northern California Wildfires

A state report finds that the utility's equipment coming into contact with trees caused the fires that ravaged the region, including the wine country.

The interior of a Tesla Model X 75D semi-autonomous electric vehicle is shown in January 2017. The company's autopilot system has been engaged at the time of a number of accidents, including a crash that killed the driver in California in March, but the company emphasizes the system can't be relied on to prevent collisions.

No Driver Input Detected In Seconds Before Deadly Tesla Crash, NTSB Finds

The driver of a Tesla Model X on autopilot died after it hit a barrier between a highway lane and an exit ramp. The NTSB found he didn't brake or have his hands on the wheel shortly before collision.

A still from surveillance footage, released by the police department in Mesa, Ariz., shows officers surrounding a man after they punched him to the ground.

Arizona Police Officers On Leave After Video Showed Them Punching Unarmed Man

The Mesa Police Department is investigating footage from May 23 that shows officers hitting a black man in the face as he stood against a wall.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission's chief commissioner, Les Allamby, speaks to members of the media outside of the Supreme Court in London on Thursday. The court said it could not rule on the commissions' challenge to Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws, but that it would have declared them incompatible with human rights laws otherwise.

Court Allows Northern Ireland's Abortion Law To Stand — But Says It Violates Rights

On technical grounds, the U.K.'s Supreme Court rejected an attempt to overturn strict abortion limits in Northern Ireland. But the court also said that the law is incompatible with human rights.

A scientist from the Nadiya Clinic in Kiev, Ukraine inserts a needle into a fertilized egg to extract the DNA of a man and woman trying to have a baby. The clinic is combining the DNA from three different people to create babies for women who are infertile.

Clinic Claims Success In Making Babies With 3 Parents' DNA

A clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, stirs controversy by making babies with DNA from three different people to help women who are infertile bear children. It's the only clinic known to be doing this right now.

Sheralin Greene, 57, mined coal for 20 years. She now suffers paralyzing coughing fits from black lung and receives payments and medical care from the federal trust fund.

Coal Miners' Fund Set For Deep Cuts As Black Lung Epidemic Grows

A federal trust fund for coal miners with the deadly disease black lung could run up a $15 billion deficit, if a planned funding cut happens at the end of the year.

At a news conference on Thursday in Kiev, Arkady Babchenko answered critics of his staged death. Authorities had announced that he had been fatally shot at his home on Tuesday.

'I Chose To Stay Alive,' Says Russian Journalist Who Faked His Death

Arkady Babchenko, fearing for his life, cooperated with Ukrainian authorities to stage his death and capture his would-be killer. Now come the ethical questions.

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