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Chinese firefighters collect lunch as they wait near the site of an explosion in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality on Saturday. Officials say that 85 firefighters are among the nearly 100 people still missing from the blasts.

Toll At 112 In Aftermath Of China Blast; Nearly 100 Missing

Most of those still unaccounted for are firefighters who responded to last week's explosions, officials say.

Syrian refugees prepare to board the passenger ship <em>Eleftherios Venizelos</em> at Kos's main port on Sunday in Kos, Greece. The vessel will house more than 2,500 refugees and migrants who entered the country from the Turkish coast.

Migrants And Refugees Find Temporary Shelter On Greek Ferry

The ferry Eleftherios Venizelos will house 2,500 in its rooms and serve as an area where local authorities will be processing paperwork for the thousands of migrants and refugees on Kos in Greece.

People inspect a site hit by what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on a marketplace in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, on Sunday.

Scores Killed In Syrian Airstrikes On Rebel Neighborhood In Damascus

More than 80 people were killed and at least 200 wounded in four airstrikes on a crowded marketplace, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

U.S. soldiers stand beside a Patriot missile system at a Turkish military base in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey, last October. In a joint statement, Washington and Ankara said the missiles would be withdrawn for updating and modernization.

U.S. Says It Will Remove Patriot Missile Defense From Turkey In October

The missile defense system deployed to Turkey in 2013 will be withdrawn so the batteries can be updated and modernized, according to a joint U.S.-Turkey statement.

A view of Coleman Avenue, looking south, from the ground floor of City Hall in Waveland, Miss. This used to be the main downtown thoroughfare. There were 29 businesses on the street before Hurricane Katrina; today there are just six.

A Decade After Katrina, Hopes Of Recovery Remain Unfulfilled In Waveland, Miss.

The hurricane virtually flattened the entire town, destroying or damaging nearly every home. Rebuilding efforts took another hit in 2010 with the BP oil spill.

The Faubourg Lafitte housing development in New Orleans was built on the site of a former public housing project. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the government sped up its plan to demolish old public housing projects and replace them with mixed-income developments such as Faubourg Lafitte.

After Katrina, New Orleans' Public Housing Is A Mix Of Pastel And Promises

The city tore down thousands of public housing units and is replacing them with mixed-income developments. The goal is to deconcentrate poverty. But it has been a hard return home for some residents.

Can playing the Project Evo game really improve the brain's ability to deal with distractions? Its manufacturer thinks so.

'Play This Video Game And Call Me In The Morning'

Developers at Akili are working on a game they hope might one day be prescribed to treat mental health conditions like ADHD and depression. But first, they must get past the FDA.

<strong></strong>UC Berkeley tree biologist Wendy Baxter is about to begin her ascent of a giant sequoia.<strong></strong>

To Measure Drought's Reach, Researchers Scale The Mighty Sequoia

After a scientist on a hike in Sequoia National Park saw trees with thin and browning needles, it got scientists thinking: Did the drought cause this? So they're climbing up them to study the damage.

A Trigana Air ATR-42 similar to the one missing in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province.

Indonesian Authorities Spot Wreckage Thought To Be Of Missing Plane

The Trigana Air Service turboprop plane was carrying 54 people as well as $468,750 in cash intended as fuel aid for poor families.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears at an event last year in Seattle for the launch of the new Amazon Fire Phone.

Jeff Bezos Responds To 'New York Times' Report On Amazon's Workplace

Amazon's CEO says in a memo to employees that "anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay."

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