The former South African president and anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela celebrates his 94th birthday with his family on Wednesday.

Planned Parenthood has filed a federal suit on Monday in an Arizona Federal Court against the state of Arizona for its new abortion law, which blocks funding to its clinics.

On Tuesday the Boy Scouts of America announced that it will uphold its ban on permitting membership to homosexuals. The decision comes from a two-year confidential review by a special committee of 11 members, who unanimously upheld the existing policy that denies gay people membership.