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The number of cases worldwide leaped more than 30 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the World Health Organization and the CDC. And they say the rise has roots in failures to vaccinate children.

Plus an unpaid faculty position and disparities in access to advanced courses, in our weekly roundup of education news.

Sir Alan Parker's resignation comes after Save the Children abuse claims against former leadership and as reports of misconduct roil the wider aid sector.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivered a conciliatory speech in which he promised to govern for "all Zimbabweans." The opposition leader insisted that Mnangagwa was illegitimate.

The president promised steel and aluminum executives that he will levy tariffs on imports of their products in coming weeks. The tariffs will be 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminum.

Gen. Charles Brown was confirmed to lead the U.S. Air Force. Brown said his nomination "provides some hope but also comes with a heavy burden," given the nation's current focus on matters of race.

Monday's volcanic eruption killed at least 16 people, many of them tourists visiting White Island. Authorities have been trying to recover two more bodies, even under the threat of another eruption.

The legislation restores some lapsed investigative authorities and adds what advocates call new safeguards against abuse. But it must go back to the House and thence to President Trump.

Indivar Dutta-Gupta, a co-executive director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, explains the U.S. unemployment insurance system's origins and role today.

The U.S. Public Health Service has won congressional authorization for a ready reserve of doctors and nurses to deploy across the country.