A heavily pregnant woman and her husband were arrested on prostitution charges after an undercover officer responded to a money-for-sex ad on popular classified advertising Website craigslist. org. According to the officials, the advertisement posted by the couple demanded $300 in lieu of sex with the pregnant lady. "She advertised that she was pregnant and married," Cpl. Sara Schriver, county police spokesman said, adding that her husband was aware of the ad and that he acted as pimp.

A Chinese woman admits to faking her pregnancy with quintuplets in order to please her husband after miscarrying her own twins. The woman, Qiao Yubo, 23, received star status for her unusual pregnancy in China. But was soon exposed after she ran away from a doctor who wanted to check up on her. The doctor who wanted to perform the check up on the supposedly then heavily pregnant woman, Mr. Li, president of Changchun Puji Hospital, says, "The pregnant mom jumped from a window and ran away. "

After waiting for nearly a decade, workers at an Amsterdam zoo are finally celebrating the birth of a baby gorilla. It took a serious effort, but experts say the baby is healthy. After two failed attempts, in 2005 the Artis Zoo had to import a male gorilla from a German safari park, Akili, in order to find a suitable partner for their female, Binti.

A woman has sued a hospital and two doctors after giving birth to a baby girl despite having an abortion. In the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Jennifer Raper, 45, claims that the physicians failed to end her pregnancy and now were responsible for the financial burden of raising her daughter. Raper decided to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant in March 2004. Therefore, on April 9, 2004 she went to Planned Parenthood, where Dr. Allison Bryant performed the procedure on her, but it "was not done properly, causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant," said the complaint, according to the Boston Globe.

In a gesture of extreme happiness after her daughter's birth, King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned almost 9,000 prisoners and reduced the sentences of more than 24,000 prisoners. According to the Justice Ministry, the King, in an act of kindness, pardoned 1,365 prisoners under age 20. That included 278 foreigners and 53 women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or accompanied by their children. He also took pity on 63 sick or disabled prisoners and 167 elderly inmates.