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Refugees and other migrants wait to board buses at Tovarnik railway station in Croatia after crossing from Serbia on Friday. Officials say they were forced to close eight road border crossings Thursday after thousands of people entered the country when Hungary fenced off its border with Serbia earlier this week.

Croatia's Army On Alert As It Tries To Slow Border Crossings

Croatia has closed highways leading in from Serbia. And neighboring Hungary has started building a fence on its border with Croatia, in addition to two others along its borders.

Coding Class, Then Naptime: Computer Science For The Kindergarten Set

New software introduces programming skills to pre-readers. Is this 21st century literacy? Or too much, too soon?

Pay, But Not Equity, Improves For Female Anesthesiologists

Anesthesiologists make a lot of money. But female anesthesiologists make much less than their male counterparts, a RAND study finds. It's the latest evidence of a persistent pay gap in health care.

How Can Our Real Lives Be Ruined By Our Digital Ones?

Writer Jon Ronson says Internet commenters can behave like a mob — and believes it's time to rethink how we interact when we go online.

While wearing a toilet seat on his head, David Hu accepts the Physics Prize, for his research on the principle that mammals empty their bladders of urine in about 21 seconds, from Dudley Herschbach, right, the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, while being honored during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday.

The 2015 Ig Nobels: Studies That Make You Go 'Huh?'

This year's prizes honored, among others, the brave researcher who subjected himself to 200 bee stings to determine where it was most painful.

New rules issued by the U.S. on Friday will make it easier for cruise ships and airlines to service Cuba.

In Further Thaw With Cuba, U.S. Relaxes Rules On Visiting, Money And Business

The changes that will take effect Monday allow U.S. companies to provide Internet and communications services in Cuba. Air and cruise ship travel will also be easier.

Onaje Allan Gumbs On Piano Jazz

Inspired early on by Henry Mancini, the pianist has since played with Woody Shaw and Nat Adderley.

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi says, "I don't buy artworks that I think are pretty ... I buy art that is politically meaningful." That art includes Yemeni photographer Boushra Al Mutawakel's <em>Mother, Daughter, Doll</em> series.

For Arab Artists With Something To Say, This Sheikh Is A Loudspeaker

Media personality and art collector Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi spends a fortune on artworks by living, Arab artists; then he shows them to as many people as possible.

Emily Blunt stars as Kate Macer in <em>Sicario</em>. She says the film raises questions about the definition of strength: "Is it somebody who has a gun and does bad things? Or is strength actually strength of character and strength of maintaining your ideals?"

Emily Blunt Says 'The Tides Are Turning' For Women In Action Films

Blunt says Hollywood creates films with teenage boys in mind and wants that to change. She's now starring in Sicario as an FBI agent investigating a drug cartel along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Partygoers attend a Prohibition-era themed New Year's Eve party celebrating the start of retail pot sales, at a bar in Denver on Dec. 31, 2013.

Awesome Tips, Dude: Denver May Allow Pot In Bars, Restaurants

Pot is legal in Colorado, but the capitol city has outlawed pot bars like those in Amsterdam, leaving tourists who flock to Denver to get high with no legal place to do so. But that may change soon.

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