A hundred years after an Edwardian won a bet to travel the world in an iron mask while pushing a baby carriage, his great-grandson is saying he could have lied about the feat. In his 1908 wager with John Pierrepoint Morgan, the founder of JP Morgan Bank, and Lord Lonsdale for the equivalent of $2. 97 million today, Harry Bensley had to travel 30,000 miles across 19 countries while finding a wife.

After call centers and other backroom operations, India has developed a unique outsourcing service: wombs for rent. In a small clinic at Kaival Hospital in Anand, infertile couples worldwide could be matched with local Indian women who could deliver their babies at a cost of around $10,000. The fee already includes the entire procedure, including fertilization, medical expenses and the fee for the surrogate mother.

A 51-year-old transit officer Steven Rocher helped a woman by delivering her baby before dawn on Christmas day. Rocher, a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority police sergeant, was driving Tuesday through North Philadelphia when he heard a screaming woman.

Infant Jesus, along with his parents Mary and Joseph will get fitted with satellite tracking this Christmas in order to prevent thieves from stealing them. The nativity scene housed a life size statue of the infant Jesus. The original statue was stolen three weeks ago prompting the satellite tracking measure. A Jewish lawyer had donated the new statue. Jeffrey Harris told the Miami Herald, "I felt bad. How could someone steal a baby Jesus? Even though I am Jewish, I like the Christmas spirit. " Dina Cellini, who oversees the display, told the AP, "I don't anticipate this will ever happen again, but we may need to rely on technology to save our savior. "

After a power outage plunged the entire town of Shelehov in northern Russia into complete darkness, doctors working on a woman about to give birth have to rely on the light provided by the mobile phones of the hospital staff but nevertheless successfully delivering the baby. According to hospital staff, doctors were just starting to work on 22-year old Rima Pivavora sorting out delivery complications when the town was engulfed in darkness.