• More Than 5 Million U.S. Children Have Had Live-In Parent Imprisoned, Sobering Statistics Reveal

  More than 5 million U.S. children, or almost 7 percent, have had a live-in parent incarcerated, well above a previous estimate on parental imprisonment, a study said on Tuesday.

  

• California Considers Adding Processed Meat Products to Cancer Alert List Amid WHO Warning

  California is examining new World Health Organization findings to determine whether to add red meat and foods like hot dogs, sausages and bacon to a cancer-alert list, setting the stage for a potential battle with the meat industry over warning labels.

  

• Nigeria's Armed Forces Rescue 338 Boko Haram Captives, Raid Militant's Camps

  Nigeria's armed forces on Wednesday said it had rescued 338 people held captive by Boko Haram and raided a number of the Islamist militant group's camps on the edge of its stronghold in the northeast's Sambisa forest.

  

• Miner's Hospice Care in China Struggles to Survive

  Yangjia Hospital in remote Wuyi County in eastern China has become a home-from-home for Hu Hushen, 78, a former miner suffering from "miner's lung", as the disease pneumoconiosis is often called, since 1976.

  

• As U.S. Braces for Syrian Refugees, Mental Health Services Lag

  More than 20 years after Saddam Hussein's soldiers in Iraq killed his brother in front of him, Ali Alghazally still suffers from night terrors he blames on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a common problem among refugees often left untreated.