As protest violence continued across Libya, European officials on Thursday debated how to handle a possible influx of migrants into Europe from the North African country.
Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni warned that Libya's political unrest could create a "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis.
Maroni told reporters in Brussels that the EU border agency Frontex estimates that as many as 1.5 million refugees could pour into Italy, a number, he says, would "bring any state to its knees."
Exchange programs that give American high school students the opportunity to study for a year in another country are quite common. But it is rare to find American high schools that have the resources to bring international students to the U.S. on full multi-year sports scholarships. Episcopal High School outside Washington D.C. is an exception. During the past several years, the private boarding school has brought a number of students from African countries to study there with great success. The African students have succeeded in the classroom and on the playing field.
High school basketball is often full of thrills. This evening, Episcopal High School is hosting Saint Albans. Both are private schools in the Washington D.C. area. But not all of the players in this game are American. Two are from Africa. Jim Fitzpatrick has been the basketball coach and associate director of admissions at Episcopal High School for the past six years.
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Hospital officials in Libya say at least 20 people were killed Sunday when Libyan security forces again opened fire on anti-government protesters.
Witnesses in Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, said the security forces shot at mourners attending a Sunday funeral for protesters killed a day before. Security forces also fired Saturday on crowds gathering for the funerals of slain activists.
Earlier Sunday, a U.S.-based rights group (Human Rights Watch) said Libya's death toll from five days of unrest had risen to at least 173.
In the American tropics, thick woody vines called lianas are outpacing trees. They're sucking up soil, nutrients and water, leaving less resources for the trees around them.
University of Wisconsin plant ecologist Stefan Schnitzer studies these aggressive, fast growing vines known as lianas.
"They are structural parasites," he says. "They use the architecture of the tree. They climb up the tree, and they put their leaves on top of the tree's leaves."
Lianas help animals traverse the forest, escape predators and get food.
Baghdad (CNN) -- At least 38 people were killed and 74 others wounded Saturday when a suicide bomber stepped onto a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in Iraq and detonated himself, police officials said.
The attack -- which occurred between Baghdad and Samarra -- was the second targeting pilgrims in the last three days.
The suicide bomber detonated at least 10 kilograms of explosives concealed in his vest, Samarra police officials said.
Most of the casualties were Shiite pilgrims heading back south to Nasiriya from Samarra in the north. Some of the wounded were on other buses waiting at the security checkpoint where the attack occurred.
He prepared Prince William's favorite meals at Kensington Palace and served Fergie strawberries and cream on her wedding day. So what does former royal chef Darren McGrady expect to see on the April 29 wedding menu?
McGrady, who served as Senior Chef at Buckingham Palace and later worked in the kitchen at Kensington Palace for the remainder of Princess Diana's life, expects a mix of traditional English fare and Prince William and Kate Middleton's favorites.
Immediately following the 11 a.m. ceremony, guests will be invited back to Buckingham Palace for a wedding breakfast of champagne, canapes and heavy h'ors d'oeuvres, such as smoked salmon, pate and mini sausage rolls which were, "always popular at the Palace -- one of the first to go," notes McGrady.
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., has inked a deal to help write a graphic novel about his experience during the 1960s civil rights movement.
As a young man, Lewis was beaten in Selma, Ala., on the day in 1965 that has become known as Bloody Sunday. Marchers were on their way from Selma to Montgomery when Lewis and others were beaten by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus bridge.
Top Shelf Productions will publish the novel, called March, in 2012. Top Shelf, a graphic novel and comics publisher, said the agreement with Lewis is a first for a sitting member of Congress.
"It is not just a story of struggle; it is a story of involvement," Lewis said in a statement posted on Top Shelf's website. "It shows the ups, the downs, the ins and the outs of a movement."
Sarah Palin and her daughter, Bristol, are taking steps to protect their brand.
The possible GOP presidential candidate and her Dancing with the Stars child have filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark "Sarah Palin" and "Bristol Palin," according to AOL's Politics Daily.
The blurring of celebrity and politics has added to the bank accounts of mother and daughter.
Sarah Palin, fresh off her 2008 vice presidential bid, inked a deal reportedly worth $7 million to write her first book, Going Rogue. Her second book, America by the Heart, also spent time on best-seller lists.
A type of diabetes that strikes during pregnancy may disappear at birth, but it remains a big red flag for moms' future health - one that too many seem to be missing.
Roughly half of women who've had gestational diabetes - the pregnancy kind - go on to develop full-fledged Type 2 diabetes in the months to years after their child's birth.
Yet new research shows fewer than one in five of those women returns for a crucial diabetes test within six months of delivery. That's the first of the checkups they're supposed to have every few years to guard against diabetes' return, but no one knows how many do.
Some Republican presidential hopefuls and prominent groups such as the Family Research Council are skipping the largest gathering of conservatives next month because a gay group is involved with the conference.
The New York Times reports today on the boycott of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) , set for Feb. 10-12 in Washington, and a dispute among conservatives over the planning role of GOProud, a group of gay conservatives that supported repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who is thinking of running for president, hasn't yet responded to an invitation from the American Conservative Union to speak at CPAC, which has been held since the 1970s.
