The soldier and bereaved families spoke on the necessity of equal conscription amid the IDF's manpower shortage. Bereaved families and a wounded soldier spoke on the urgency of equal conscription to Israel’s military during a session of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday, as lawmakers debated advancing the bill to enforce haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription to the IDF.

Suze Lopez holds her baby boy on her lap and marvels at the remarkable way he came into the world. Before little Ryu was born, he developed outside his mom’s womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian cyst — a dangerous situation so rare that his doctors plan to write about the case for a medical journal. Just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus, and those that make it to full term “are essentially unheard of — far, far less than 1 in a million,” said Dr. John Oz

Authorities on Friday arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico who they were supposed to be protecting. The Associated Press saw at least five of the suspects arrested by state and federal authorities in Uruapan on Friday, steps away from the site where Mayor Carlos Manzo was killed during Day of the Dead festivities on Nov. 1. An official familiar with the operation said all seven had been bodyguard