Egypt 'baby trafficking ring' broken up in Cairo 
 
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 A child-trafficking ring that sold 300 babies over three years has been broken up in Cairo, Egyptian police say. A police official said they arrested five suspects, including two nurses and a doctor working at the Cairo hospital where the babies were sold for almost three years. The official said the network also performed caesarian operations on women who had left it too late for an abortion of an unwanted child in exchange for allowing the doctors to sell the babies, usually to couples who could not have their own children. Abortion is legal where it is deemed necessary for the health of the mother. Only a limited form of adoption is allowed, to the extent that children cannot take the name of their adoptive families.
– Egyptian authorities have arrested five people in a baby-trafficking ring that helped nearly 300 adoptive parents skirt the nation's Islamic laws, AFP reports. Members of the ring allegedly removed unwanted babies by C-section from mothers who had waited too long to get an abortion. The ring then sold babies for up to $570 each to adoptive parents, who could give each child their family name—a practice normally forbidden by Islamic law when children are adopted, reports the BBC. Among the suspects are a doctor and two nurses who allegedly aided the baby-trafficking ring at a Cairo hospital for three years. Police are also seeking the hospital's manager, who evaded arrest. An interesting aside in the story: Abortion is only permitted in Egypt when the mother's health is at stake.