"Losing your mucus plug usually means your cervix is dilating (opening up) and becoming thinner and softer (effacing)," ...

But as our correspondents traversed the globe, they found pockets of light, too. Clockwise from top left, giant puppets of music legends for Carnival in Brazil; the two lead actors in “Io ...

[It’s] very hard to see the world around those oncoming headlights because it’s such a huge contrast with the really bright lights compared with the very dimly lit areas around that.” ...