Suspiciously, an elderly man looks at the girl who just wants to board the bus. She carries a small bundle in her arms. “So young and already a mama?” He asked me how I could be [a mother] because of my age.” Zoé describes their encounter the previous day. The 15-year-old let the stranger know immediately. “This is not a baby in her arms, but just a doll.” Or more precisely, a baby simulator. Eight... 

An Italian couple’s adoption bid was denied after they said in their application that they did not want “dark-skinned” children. An appeal court in Sicily ruled that the couple were unfit to adopt children of any description, local media reported. A child protection agency took the couple to court after they submitted an application in Catania, in eastern Sicily, saying they were...