Splits within the EU on the relocation of 120,000 migrants have been further exposed as leaders gather for an emergency meeting in Brussels.
Slovakia is launching a legal challenge to mandatory quotas that were passed in a majority vote on Tuesday.
Hungary's PM defended its "democratic rights" and proposed a radical budgetary revamp to raise funds.
The summit will focus on tightening EU borders and aiding neighbours of Syria, from where many migrants come.
EU leaders have struggled to find a co-ordinated response to the crisis.
British Prime Minster David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande held talks on the eve of the meeting, saying that finding a solution to the Syrian conflict would be key to resolving the migrant crisis.
Palestinian university student shot dead by Israeli soldier in Hebron
18-year-old student is believed to be Hadeek al-Hashlamon
A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli soldier at a West Bank checkpoint.
The girl, believed to be 18-year-old university student Hadeek al-Hashlamon, was photographed in the dramatic moments leading up to the confrontation in the city of Hebron.
It is alleged Ms al-Hashlamon attempted to stab the soldier at around 8.30am on Tuesday, as tensions continued to simmer ahead of major Muslim and Jewish religious holidays.
Egypt's Sisi pardons jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy
Latest update : 2015-09-23
Egypt’s President Abdel Fatta al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners, including Canadian Al-Jazeera TV journalist Mohamed Fahmy, on Wednesday, security sources said.
The reported pardons came a day before Sisi plans to head to New York for the 70th session of the UN General Assembly.
Fahmy, along with three other Al-Jazeera journalists, was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial last month on charges of operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt.
1916: 40 under-16s were shot in a single week
One of the 40 children shot during the 1916 Rising was peeling an orange on Grafton Street. A baby was killed in her mother’s arms. Dublin was a dangerous place that week
Darragh Murphy
At the time of the Easter Rising, Dublin was a packed city, even more so than today. Many of the suburbs had yet to be built, and most of the families were crammed into filthy, overcrowded, disease-ridden slum tenement houses, overflowing with malnourished children. For example, there were 107 people in one house at No 7 Henrietta Street.
Into this teeming mass 1,500 Irish nationalists and 20,000 British soldiers (many of them Irish), all armed with shotguns, revolvers, rifles and even artillery, fought each other in battles across Dublin city centre.
Around 300 civilians got caught up in the crossfire and died, including 40 children aged 16 and under.
It was a story about a crucial but normally dry issue that ignited outrage around the world.
A former hedge fund manager, Martin Shkreli, founded a start-up company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, that bought the rights to a vital though decades-old drug, Daraprim, and jacked up the price by over 4000 per cent, risking lives of patients who could no longer afford the medication that kept them alive.
Despite Shkreli agreeing to lower the price of the drug after the backlash, the New York Times' revelation of his behaviour this week focused attention on what is arguably a larger scandal – the success pharmaceutical companies have had in boosting the price of drugs in the United States.
Big Pharma's most extraordinary win came in 2003, when Congress passed a law that at once expanded government health insurance for the elderly, known as Medicare, to include prescription drugs.
Tanzania cooks up a sweet potato fix for its drought
Farmers are switching to hardy orange sweet potato to cope with drought and improve food security.
KISHAPU, TANZANIA — In the wind-swept plains of Kishapu, in Tanzania's northern Shinyanga region, Himelda Tumbo has for a few years struggled to grow maize (corn) on her farm.
"I have suffered huge losses due to drought. The seasonal rains are not enough and the crops are drying up," she complained. Maize once grew easily, she said, but now "I can hardly get enough to feed my family."
The 53-year-old farmer's other traditional crops, such as beans, groundnuts, and yams, also are struggling, she said – one reason she has now turned to planting drought-resistant orange sweet potato.
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