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Security services have prevented 13 potential terror attacks since June 2013, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism police officer has revealed.
Assistant commissioner Mark Rowley also said there were 500 live counter-terror investigations at any time.
He disclosed the figures as he launched an appeal, Action Counters Terrorism, for the public to report suspicions.
Women are being signed off to have abortions based on only a brief phone conversation with a call centre worker, the Mail can reveal.
Doctors at Marie Stopes, the second largest abortion provider in the country, are approving thousands of abortions a year for women they have never met.
Less than a year after an inspection by the healthcare watchdog found that many abortion approvals are based on only a one-line summary of what a woman tells a call centre worker who has no medical training, a Mail investigation revealed that the telephone discussions can be as short as 22 seconds.
'They will hate you because of who I am,' Jesus says in the Gospels. He forgot to add: 'And the ones who don't have a clue will point and laugh.' It’s a lesson Carol Monaghan has learned abruptly.
Monaghan is MP for Glasgow North West and a member of the Scottish National Party. A former science teacher, it's fair to say she hasn't grabbed the media spotlight in the way some of her colleagues have since entering Parliament in 2015. Still, she's gone about her duties as an MP, seeing to the needs of her constituents, and serving on the Commons science and technology committee.
This week, the TV cameras finally found her. On Wednesday, Monaghan turned up to her committee and was met by a colleague's question. What was that on her forehead?
Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, said on Sunday they would launch a new push to legalize same-sex marriage in Germany, a move opposed in the past by Merkel's Christian Democrats.
Thomas Oppermann, who heads the SPD's parliamentary faction, told Der Spiegel magazine his party would raise the issue at the next meeting of the right-centre coalition, a move welcomed by the pro-environment Green party.
The issue could help the SPD differentiate itself from Merkel's conservatives as the uneasy coalition partners ramp up campaigning ahead of Sept. 24 national elections.
Let me make something absolutely clear at the outset. I am not transphobic or anti-trans. Not a Terf in other words. That's trans-exclusionary radical feminist, to use one of the often-confusing expressions that have entered the language in this age of gender revolution.
I’ll admit to feminist, but radical or separatist? No, on account of spending the past 37 years of my life as a woman married to a man and, together, raising two fine sons. I make my position plain because I know that in writing this article I am entering into the most controversial and, at times, vicious, vulgar and threatening debate of our day. I’m diving headfirst into deep and dangerous waters.
Survival rates for babies born at 23 weeks' gestation are now so high that up to 70% are being saved at some hospitals.
At University College London Hospitals, one of Britain's leading trusts, the figures show that in the past five years, 22 out of 30 babies born after 23 weeks in the womb survived, according to new figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws.
At Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, 16 out of 25 babies born at 23 weeks between 2011 and 2016 survived, and at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, 9 of the 18 babies born at 23 weeks between 2012 and 2016 survived. That compares with 19% nationally in 2006, though there are no current comparable national figures.
Since the widely publicised General Synod debate about the House of Bishops' Report on marriage and same-sex relationships, there has been speculation about the Archbishop of Canterbury's call for 'radical inclusion' and a number of bishops have called for the Church of England to be more affirming of same-sex relationships. The latter see the Church as being on a trajectory towards change. One bishop, John Wraw, has explicitly said he hopes that in time there will be full acceptance of same-sex marriages in the Church of England.
Evangelicals in the Church of England are on a different trajectory. We hope we are not insensitive to the value of intimate relationships or the needs we all feel for intimacy and life sharing. But it is both our conviction and our experience that as people who find their identity in Christ, there is great joy, fulfilment and blessing in obedience to the Word of God. In the General Synod debate, the Rev'd Sam Allberry, himself a same-sex attracted man, said 'my primary sense of worth and fulfillment as a human being is not contingent on being romantically or sexually fulfilled, and this is liberating.'
The second in an occasional series of interviews about same sex attraction. Phelim speaks of his own past and present ministry.
A Christian charity has said there is a "door open" now for abortion and same-sex marriage to potentially be introduced in Northern Ireland, after its election result.
CARE is speaking after Sinn Fein had its best ever Northern Ireland election result, coming in one seat behind the leading Democratic Unionist Party. The nationalist party came into the election ten seats behind.
Sinn Fein has pushed for Northern Ireland to bring in same-sex marriage and abortion is specific, restricted cases - both things which are currently illegal there.
"I couldn’t keep the child."
Roisin* was 23 and drowning in revision for her final exams at medical school last summer when she discovered she was 14 weeks pregnant. She was planning to move from rural Ireland, where she grew up and was studying, to Dublin that autumn to take up a training placement as the next step towards her dream career as a doctor.
"I couldn’t continue having the life I wanted," she told BuzzFeed News, "or any career I wanted if I was to have the baby at that time."