Slideshow: Top News Photos, Dec. 17

Medical Mysteries: Her depression and poor memory had an unusual cause The Washington Post

Even with access to blockbuster obesity drugs, some people don't lose weight KSL.comView Full Coverage on Google News

So Many Days Lost at the Doctor’s Office The New York Times

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens in central Beirut, officials said, as diplomats scrambled to broker a cease-fire. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the death toll could rise as emergency responders dug through the rubble looking for survivors. DNA tests are being used to identify the victims, it said, adding that 63 people were wounded.

MANILA — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the President, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the “active threat” against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

NASA spotted a very young planet. It could become a super-Earth. MashableDiscovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet Science@NASAAstronomers Discover a ‘Newborn’ World, the Youngest Known Transiting Exoplanet Smithsonian MagazinePlanet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found New ScientistYoungest planet ever discovered has misaligned orbit, puzzles scientists Yahoo!