Uzbekistan is planning to ban marriages between bloodline cousins, blaming the phenomenon for birth defects among newborns. One study claims that nearly 10 percent of the babies born with genetic ...

The men -- from the Afyonkarahisar, Burdur, Denizli, and Isparta provinces -- told STAR TV that they paid between $3,000 and $12,000 to a marriage agency in exchange for a bride.