Lawyers for a locked-in syndrome sufferer are set to challenge the government over right-to-die laws if, as is expected, the Director of Public Prosecutions cannot be forced to issue offence-specific guidelines on mercy killing.
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July 27th, 2010
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July 27th, 2010
Babies given more love and affection by their mothers deal better with stress and anxiety when they grow up, research has shown.
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July 27th, 2010
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have sued Augusta State University in Georgia on behalf of a counseling student who claims the university told her to deny her Christian beliefs in order to graduate.
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July 27th, 2010
Word leaked out slowly, spread by Web-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn that once was blocked by Chinese government censors was now openly available.
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July 27th, 2010
More deaths have occurred after another outbreak of interreligious violence in the Jos region of the Plateau state of central Nigeria, it emerged this week.
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July 27th, 2010
Rules inevitably cause injustice, but rules we must have ? in this case against 'mercy killing' ? in order to protect the vulnerable.
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July 27th, 2010
slamists have it all over everyone else in the art of intimidation - using freedom in western civilization as a weapon in the battle to rule the world. One reason this practice has been successful is that civilized societies cannot comprehend a doctrine so pervasive in its goal to take over the world that so many non Muslims are unwilling to accept that we are in a war between different worlds. But the threat is not extra-terrestrial; it is a real threat by real people.
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July 27th, 2010
EastEnders' actor Don Gilet says his role of Lucas Johnson, a murderous preacher, is not anti-Christian.
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July 27th, 2010
A US Republican politician, Ron Ramsey, who is supported by the controversial Tea Party, has come under fire for likening Islam to a 'cult' and casting doubt about whether it is even a religion.
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July 27th, 2010
Cameron?s 'Real Islam' in truth consists of secular west Turkey and a few decent liberal Muslim organisations in the UK, a constituency which represents a minuscule proportion of the Ummah. You don?t 'understand' Islam by making this false dichotomy; it is not just presumptuous and ignorant, but also plain wrong.