An incredible story of survival from Bangladesh; Australia steps up to help a small country in big trouble; new arrests in Israel reflect a major social shift.

Rescuers pulled a survivor out of the rubble of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, 17 days after collapsed.  Seamstress Reshma Begum was in a prayer room in the basement and survived on dried food and bottled water.  Officials on Friday confirmed they have recovered 1,045 bodies and about 2,500 people were injured.

Australia is offering to rescue the Marshall Islands from a terrible drought, by providing A$100 Thousand for emergency desalination units.  The US is donating several reverse-osmosis machines, which convert salt water into fresh water.  Marshall Islands officials say the dry season should have ended six weeks ago and no rain is forecast in the next ten days.  Replenishing rains aren’t expected until later in the year.  The drought is affecting sanitation and there has been an increase in diseases including conjunctivitis and diarrhea.

Police have called off the search for Paul Rossington and Kristen Schroder, the New South Wales couple who went missing from a Carnival Cruise ship in the Pacific this week.  Police are trying to determine how they fell off the ship, and some reports are suggesting Rossington fell trying to rescue Schroder who fell moments earlier.

Israeli police arrested three men and held back hundreds of ultra-orthodox for trying to prevent a liberal Jewish women's group from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall.  Israeli courts have recently backed the women’s right to pray and overturned arrests of women activists who went to the wall.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has fired her chief spokesman over what her office said was a “disgraceful incident” during Park's trip to the United States.  A police report says 56-year old Yoon Chang-jung grabbed a woman's buttocks in a Washington hotel on Tuesday.

Guatemala’s former dictator Efrain Rios Montt testified for the first time at his genocide trial, and denied ordering the extermination of Ixil Mayas.  Prosecutors say Rios Montt oversaw the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayas during the 1982-1983 war because he thought they were sympathetic to his political enemies.

Pakistan votes in nationwide assembly elections today, under threat from the Taliban.  Islamic militants are vowing a campaign of terrorism targeting candidates and voters aligned with the military or secular parties.  More than a hundred people have been killed in the days leading up to the balloting.

32-year old Michelle Knight has been released from an Ohio hospital, she was the first woman to be taken captive allegedly by a Ariel Castro and held prisoner for roughly a decade.  The other two women returned to their families earlier in the week.