Yemen

At least five migrants died Thursday — "deliberately drowned" by smugglers afraid of arrest, the International Organization for Migration says. Some 50 others are still missing.

That's according to a new analysis from Save the Children. Yemen's outbreak is the world's worst in a single year since records have been kept, according to Oxfam.

The unfolding epidemic in the war-ravaged country "continues to spiral out of control," the International Committee of the Red Cross announced Monday.

First she was shot at on the way to work. Then her house was destroyed by a bomb. That didn't deter this female scientist.

There are more than 200,000 cases in Yemen, a war-ravaged country whose health system is collapsing. We asked specialists what needs to happen to bring the disease under control.

World health authorities say the war-torn nation now has upwards of 200,000 suspected cases, and that number is increasing at an average of 5,000 a day. A quarter of those who have died are children.

Of the scholars who set out on a 1761 quest to Yemen, only one came back alive. But don't let their looming doom distract from the drama in Thorkild Hansen's hybrid of history, fiction and travelogue.

More than 124,000 suspected cases have been reported over the past six weeks. And the health care system is collapsing.