An Argentine judge paved the way for gay marriage when she granted a homosexual couple permission to marry in a first for Latin America, the world’s biggest Catholic region.

Buenos Aires, known for its active if low-key gay movement, became the region’s first city to approve civil unions for gay couples in 2002. It was followed by Villa Carlos Paz in the north and the southern province of Rio Negro.

Those civil unions grant gay couples some, but not all, the rights enjoy…

In a novel method, a healer uses enraged bees to provide pain relief in Gaza.

In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees.

He uses the bees to sting those who have come to him for help — and amid the territory’s deepening isolation, his clinic has been transformed into a hive of activity.

Since the Islamist movement Hamas seized power in Gaza …