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The father, u/throwawayyyy7718, shared his story in Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole” (AITA) forum, where it has received over 7,800 upvotes and thousands of comments from Redditors who slammed the father for “playing favorites” with his children. You can read the full post here. Do Parents Play Favorites? According to BetterHelp, an online mental health platform, despite their best efforts, parents sometimes “inadvertently favor one child over another,” due to temperament, shared interests or “necessity....

A video has gone viral on TikTok and Facebook after someone captured footage of an otter being attacked by nine dogs in a canal in Singapore. Viewed over 2.3 million times on Facebook and over 619,000 times on TikTok, the video lasts 50 seconds and is recorded by an unknown bystander. The otter in the video succeeds quite well at defending itself as the dogs continuously howl. Finally, after nearly a minute of back-and-forth combat between the nipping dogs and the otter, a passerby off camera begins throwing rocks into the water to scare away the canines....

The poster’s sister and her husband said he was overreacting; however, online commenters have rushed to his defense. In the popular Reddit forum “Am I The Ahole,” a man under the username u/NonTueWed3099 asked: “AITA [Am I the ahole] for demanding my sister’s husband to pay for my girlfriend’s dress that he ruined at his wedding?” The post has received more than 14,000 votes and over 2,000 comments. According to the poster, the prank took place at his sister and brother-in-law’s wedding reception....

Last week a team of the world’s top mountaineers set out from base camps on Everest hoping to find the body of Sandy Irvine–and the answer to that question. Irvine, 22, was carrying a Kodak Vestpocket camera–with film that Kodak officials believe could survive in alpine temperatures. The team will also be searching for discarded oxygen canisters and climbing apparatus at various elevations. “The answers are high on the north face of Mount Everest waiting for discovery,” says a team statement....

The term “invasive” means cancer cells have spread beyond the duct system into other parts of the breast. This does not always mean IDC has spread beyond the breasts, or even that it has invaded the lymph nodes or blood vessels. Healthcare providers use a staging system to describe how far cancer has spread within the body. For breast cancer, the stages are numbered from 0 to 4. Higher numbers indicate more extensive spread....

The testing applies to any athlete who competed in 2008 and is considered likely to represent their country this year, IOC medical director Dr. Richard Budgett told The Associated Press on Thursday. It’s a proactive approach to keep tainted athletes out of the 2016 Summer Games. MORE: Portraits of Team USA athletes headed to Rio “We want to protect the clean athletes who are going to be competing in Rio,” Budgett said....

The specific medication that is used in iontophoresis depends upon the goals of treatment. Some medications are used to decrease inflammation, while others are used to decrease calcium deposits in muscle and tendon tissue. If your physical therapist decides to use iontophoresis, it is important that you understand the goals of treatment and the type of medication that is being used. Below is a list of common iontophoresis medications and their uses in physical therapy....

MORE: College football scoreboard | Top 25 updates Iowa linebacker Josey Jewell, who delivered the hit, was ejected after the blatant target on Miami (Ohio) defensive back Matt Merimee. Tennessee’s Jalen Reeves-Maybin may have been the first player ejected this season for a targeting call, but his hit was nothing compared to Jewell’s.

Line: Baylor -2.5 Total: 158.5 MORE: College hoops live odds | ATS standings Trends: ISU 18-7 SU, 12-9-1 ATS, 9-12-1 O/U. Baylor 18-7 SU, 6-12-1 ATS, 12-7 O/U. KenPom efficiency ratings: ISU 16 (overall), 4 (offense), 77 (defense). Baylor 38, 11, 147 Effective FG percentage: ISU 56.6, Baylor 51.6 EFG% against: ISU 49.5, Baylor 51.0 Pick: Baylor is 1-7 ATS in its last eight and has been largely a disappointment this season....

After several severe storms hit Ames, Iowa on Saturday putting a stop to Iowa State’s matchup with the No. 19 Hawkeyes for a second time, a hail storm forced security guards to leave the field at Jack Trice Stadium. With that, the Cyclone student body was left unattended. That was a bad idea — or a really good one depending on how you look at it. The second security cleared the premises, students stormed the field and had themselves a good ‘ole time....

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traveled to Tokyo on Friday to meet Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, becoming the first Iranian president to do so in 19 years. The visit followed Abe’s historic trip to Tehran in June and, while then too the Japanese leader sought to ease worsening frictions between the U.S. and Iran, the security situation in the Persian Gulf—an oil lifeline for much of the world, including East Asia—has only deteriorated in the months since....

Iranian officials lashed out after a “desperate move” caused the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran to have an electrical blackout. Civilian nuclear program workers said the “accident” suddenly disrupted the plant’s electrical distribution grid. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, stopped short of accusing any specific country for the likely “cyberattack,” but vowed to beef up the country’s nuclear program despite ongoing Western efforts to reach a denuclearization deal....

Already suffering under the weight of stringent sanctions imposed by the order of President Donald Trump, Iran has become one of the worst-hit countries in the world in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompoe announced that more sanctions would be added for Iran, despite reports that the Persian Gulf nation was already struggling to obtain much needed medical supplies to combat the outbreak. As a result, Khamenei on Sunday refused the possibility of accepting U....

“Westerners do not help us, they hit wherever they can,” he said. “They don’t help, they are enemies.” Khamenei’s remark about U.S. stubbornness pertained to the negotiations on Tehran’s missiles and regional influence. This will likely bring challenges to efforts to revive the tattered nuclear agreement with major world powers, which the U.S. withdrew from in 2018. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below: Khamenei’s remarks come as his hard-line protege, President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, is poised to be sworn in next week as the head of the country’s civilian government....

Zarif told the Iranian parliament Sunday that Iran is winning its battle against the U.S. and that the Trump administration was isolating itself on the world stage, according to the Mehr news agency. “The Islamic Republic is a rising power and this has led the U.S. to wage all-out war against Iran,” Zarif said, identifying what he said are key elements of a U.S. plot to bring down the regime....

Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf told Azhar Azizan Harun—the speaker of Malaysia’s House of Representatives—on Monday that Malaysia and other Muslim nations should push back against America’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran, the state-backed Press TV reported. The U.S. announced earlier in October it would blacklist 18 Iranian banks that had previously been spared the worst of the sanctions campaign, effectively cutting the country off from the international financial market. Iranian officials warned this would affect the country’s ability to import much-needed humanitarian and medical supplies, even as it faces a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic....

The IRGC issued a statement Thursday claiming to have sent a potent message to the U.S. with the combined armed drills, which included ballistic missile launches and an attack on a mock U.S. aircraft carrier. U.S. troops in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates were temporarily put on high alert during the missile launches. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has never started a war, but in case of any aggression against Iran, IRGC and other powerful defenders of the country will give a decisive and crushing response,” the elite force—designated a terrorist organization by President Donald Trump’s administration—said, according to the Mehr News Agency....

Iran has been struggling with Trump’s sanctions, which combined with the coronavirus pandemic have left the country’s economy teetering. Tehran has already been resorting to force to put down social unrest, and another four years of Trump would have been a daunting challenge. But the president is not out of the Oval Office yet. Axios reported Sunday that the administration is coordinating with Israel and several Gulf allies to launch a new sanctions campaign, seeking to cripple Iran and make it hard for Biden to ease the pressure or re-enter the floundering nuclear deal come January....

Spokesman Yurii Ihnat was responding to reports that Iran has pledged to provide Russia with surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, as well as more attack drones, for President Vladimir Putin’s troops to use in the war against Ukraine. Two senior Iranian officials and two diplomats told Reuters last month that Iran and Russia came to a deal on October 6 when First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, two senior officials from Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow for talks....